Internal hernia after gastric bypass surgery during middle trimester pregnancy resulting in fetal loss: risk of internal hernia never ends

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 378-380

  Efthimiou, Evangelos ^a   Stein, Larry ^a   Court, Olivier ^a   Christou, Nicolas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS WASTAGE; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKEMIA; MORBID OBESITY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STOMACH BYPASS; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GASTRIC BYPASS; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 67349238204     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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