Seven cases of gastric perforation in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients: What lessons can we learn?

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-534

  Sasse, Kent C ^a   Ganser, John ^a   Kozar, Mark ^a   Watson, Robert W ^a   McGinley, Laurie ^a   Lim, Dionne ^a   Weede, Melissa ^a   Smith, Curtis J ^a   Bovee, Vicki ^a  

^a Western Bariatric Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Gastrointestinal anastomosis; Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori); Marginal ulcer (MU); Proton pump inhibitors (PPI); Roux en Y gastric bypass (RYGB)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SUCRALFATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BONE PAIN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS; SEPSIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH PERFORATION; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PEPTIC ULCER PERFORATION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 43049115660     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9335-4     Document Type: Article

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