Post written by Omar M. Ghanem, MD, from the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. The video describes a case of a patient suffering from weight regain after open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in 2003. The patient’s presenting BMI was 59. We elected to perform a novel staged endo-laparoscopic approach with transoral outlet …
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Demonstration of transoral gastric outlet reduction
Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Weight regain after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is common and is partially attributable to dilatation of the gastrojejunostomy (GJ), which diminishes the restrictive capacity of RYGB. Endoscopic revision of dilated GJ, called transoral outlet reduction (TORe), has been proved effective in …
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