Recovery from your gastric bypass surgery takes about three to six weeks. That said, your "real" recovery lasts a lifetime. This is because right after surgery you must adopt strict eating and ...

This is called endoscopic dilation. In some cases, you may need more surgery to fix problems related to the stenosis. You may also need to take proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medicine to reduce your ...

Following gastric bypass surgery, there is a significant decrease in the body’s capacity to absorb nutrients, including iron. A lack of iron is a frequent issue encountered by many patients post ...

Malignant gastric outlet obstruction (MGOO) is a severe complication of advanced upper gastrointestinal malignancies. While surgical gastrojejunostomy has long been the standard treatment for ...

choledocholithiasis presents a particularly unique problem in the gastric bypass patient. Removal or assessment of common bile duct stones with ERCP is virtually impossible by the normal ...

The WVU Medicine Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery clinic has opened at the Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., The Journal reported Jan. 30.

Objective To obtain a pooled risk estimate on the long-term impact of anaemia and related nutritional deficiencies in patients receiving Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. Design Systematic ...

A patient of Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) claims he lost 65kg in 11 months and suffered septic shock, respiratory failure and severe malnourishment after gastric bypass surgery. His surgeon and RDH ...

Gastric-outlet obstruction (GOO ... Some patients develop recurrent malignant obstruction after palliative bypass. Endoscopic placement of SEMS can be a useful nonsurgical alternative for ...

Mild patients can achieve symptom control through nutritional support and drug therapy, while for refractory cases, emerging technologies such as gastric electrical stimulation (GES) and endoscopic ...