Gastrointestinal symptom improvement after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: long-term analysis

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-558

  Ballem, Naveen ^a   Yellumahanthi, Kishore ^b   Wolfe, Matthew ^b   Wesley, Mary M ^b   Clements, Ronald H ^b  

^a Clara Maass Medical Center   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal symptom survey; Long term outcomes; Morbid obesity; Roux en Y gastric bypass

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; ERUCTATION; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HARD FECES; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70249094243     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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