Erschienen in:
01.07.2015 | Letter to the Editor
A Simple Trick to Prevent VOMIT After Sleeve Gastrectomy
verfasst von:
Daniel Gero, Lara Ribeiro-Parenti, Jean-Pierre Marmuse
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2015
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Excerpt
Victim of medical imaging technologies (VOMIT) is a term coined by a pediatric neurosurgeon to describe anxiety-inducing false-positive results on radiologic imaging [
1]. Morbidly obese patients have a low functional physiological reserve that constrains to a fast diagnostic work-up, and an aggressive and early treatment of potential complications [
2]. Upper gastrointestinal contrast study (UGI) is a useful modality to detect functional and surgical complications after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) [
3]. However, in some cases, the residual gastric tube is floppy, and the findings are hard to interpret. In this paper, we present a simple trick which aims to prevent SG patients from suffering physically as well as mentally and from undergoing unnecessary further diagnostic interventions due to a false-positive UGI finding. …
