Erschienen in:
26.06.2021 | Letter to the Editor
Symptomatic Gastric Outlet Stenosis After Gastric Clip Removal
verfasst von:
Shao-Qi Hung, Ting-Wei Chang, Po-Chih Chang
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 12/2021
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Excerpt
Horizontally applying a stainless steel clip over the gastric cardia is the core surgical step in laparoscopic gastric clipping (LGC), which has a promising weight loss effect by limiting food intake and maintaining the integrity of the gastrointestinal tract [
1,
2]. Some patients who receive LGC may occasionally experience significant dysphagia during solid food ingestion, which is related to the narrow gastric outlet because of the implanted gastric clip (GC) [
3,
4]. Such a complication has ever been reported with other clip gastroplasties, and removal of the GC would be the definite treatment to relieve patients of this intractable problem [
3‐
7]. Thus, we herein present the case of a patient with a protracted course of symptomatic gastric outlet stenosis after GC removal that resolved spontaneously during follow-up. …
