DOUBLE CLOSED-LOOP OBSTRUCTION AND PERFORATION IN A PREVIOUS ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS

Authors
KEYSER EJ AHMED NA MOTT BD TCHERVENKOV J
Citation
Ej. Keyser et al., DOUBLE CLOSED-LOOP OBSTRUCTION AND PERFORATION IN A PREVIOUS ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS, Obesity surgery, 8(4), 1998, pp. 475-479
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Obesity surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
09608923
Volume
8
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
475 - 479
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-8923(1998)8:4<475:DCOAPI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A healthy 45-year-old woman with a previous Roux-en-Y gastric bypass p resented with the signs, symptoms and blood analysis results consisten t with acute pancreatitis. She was initially treated nonoperatively an d subsequently went into circulatory shock. Computerized tomographic s can and exploratory laparotomy revealed a volvulus of the afferent jej unal limb with secondary obstruction, necrosis, and perforation of the bypassed stomach. (C) 1998 Lippincott-Raven Publishers.