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01-04-2019 | Letter to Editor/LED Reply
Reply to “Laparoscopic Conversion of One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass”
Authors:
Enrico Facchiano, Marcello Lucchese
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 4/2019
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Excerpt
We thank the Author(s) for their interest in our paper, cited in the final part of their Letter to the Editor. Our video submission, published in Obesity Surgery in 2016, describes the conversion of a One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (OAGB) to a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) for chronic bile reflux. In our paper, we proposed to fashion a Roux-en-Y limb leaving in place the pre-existing gastro-jejunal anastomosis. We divided the afferent limb next to the previous gastro-jejunal anastomosis and a jejuno-jejunal anastomosis was performed distally at 70 cm on the alimentary limb [
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