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01-11-2017 | Letter to the Editor
Double Perforation of Marginal Ulcers after One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass with a Biliary Peritonitis
Authors:
Tarek Debs, Niccolo Petrucciani, Radwan Kassir, Madleen Chassang, Julien Havet, Thierry Piche, Imed Ben Amor, Jean Gugenheim
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 11/2017
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Excerpt
One anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) has become recently the fourth most frequent operation worldwide and is only preceded by sleeve gastrectomy (SG), Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), and gastric banding [
1,
2]. The technical simplicity and quickness of this operation with the effective weight loss results and amelioration of the comorbidities have played a role in the remarkable recent success of OAGB [
3‐
5]. Controversy remains regarding biliary reflux after OAGB, and its potential long-term consequences on esogastric mucosa [
6‐
8]. Many articles have reported the incidence of marginal ulcers, but are the perforations of these ulcers always associated with biliary peritonitis? …