Gastrointestinal bleeding after gastric bypass surgery: Nuisance or catastrophe?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 643-647

  Dick, Amanda ^a   Byrne, T Karl ^a   Baker, Megan ^a   Budak, Amanda ^a   Morgan, Katherine ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Gastric bypass; Postoperative; Staple line

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVENING DOSAGE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HERNIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STENOSIS; STOMA STENOSIS; STOMA ULCERATION; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH FISTULA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649511076     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2010.07.016     Document Type: Article

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