Since his retirement in 1986 as Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort, Jan le Roux was picking up the threads of his doctoral studies on the veins of the bovine head. He injected 28 heads with latex and before he and his wife, Sjaan, left Pretoria to settle in Montagu, he regularly worked in the department of Anatomy. For him dissecting was an art, as illustrated by the fin...

Cuvinte cheie: rezecţia gastrică, gastrectomia, ansa în Y a la Roux, complicaţii postoperatorii, mortalitate Abstract: We conducted a retrospective study on 138 patients from a single surgeon’s experience with the aim to analyze the different types of gastric resection performed for both benign and malignant diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract and to compare the different reconstructiv...

BACKGROUND To review our experience with early jejunojejunostomy obstruction (JJO) at a large academic teaching hospital and provide a management algorithm. Early JJO is a known and often overlooked complication of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. METHODS From 2003 to 2007, 1097 patients underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at our institution. Data, including patient demograp...

INTRODUCTION Bariatric surgery is a method of treating morbid obesity, which has been raising more and more interest in the past years. Among all types of intervention, the most frequently used is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, an intervention both restrictive and malabsorptive, which leads to best results in weight loss. In Romania, bariatric surgery, and especially Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is not...

Biliary ductal strictures are multifactorial and categorized based on their benign or malignant etiology. Treatment strategies for benign biliary strictures are complex and frequently require multiple interventions to achieve longterm results. In patients with prior upper gastrointestinal surgery, such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, options are more limited due to the difficulty of an endoscope t...

Bariatric surgery procedures, including laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, result in an average weight loss of 50 percent of excess body weight. Remission of diabetes mellitus occurs in approximately 80 percent of patients after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Other obesity-related comorbidities are greatly reduced, and health-relat...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome is increasing worldwide and both behavior modification and drug therapy have low adherence. Gastric bypass has shown effective results in both reducing weight and improving comorbidities. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery (RYGB) on both metabolic syndrome components and the use of associated drugs i...

CONTEXT Causal factors of gastrojejunal ulcers after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass include peptic acid secretion from the gastric pouch. Esomeprazole is a potent inhibitor of acid secretion. OBJECTIVE To assess the occurrence of dyspepsia and gastrojejunal ulcers within the first 2 months after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass during the use of esomeprazole. METHODS One hundred eighteen morbid obese sub...

PURPOSE To assess the effects of Roux-en-Y jejunal limb length on gastric emptying and enterogastric reflux. METHODS Seventy male Wistar rats were submitted to antrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction and then were divided into two groups of 35 animals. Group A, short limb (7.5 cm) and Group B, standard limb (15 cm). Group A and B were subdivided into five subgroups each in order to study ent...

INTRODUCTION Intussusception after gastrectomy is a minor complication after gastrectomy, while common bile duct stone (CBD) is also a rare complication post cholecystectomy. We report a case that simultaneously caused both intussusception and CBD stone following gastrectomy with prophylactic cholecystectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 74-year-old woman underwent distal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y re...