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VIDEO: What’s in a name? The young surgeon behind the Roux-en-Y anastomosis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, ...
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The use of double balloon enteroscopy for diagnosis and treatment of strictures of hepaticojejunal anastomoses after primary correction of bile duct injuries.

Development of strictures of hepaticojejunal anastomoses (HJA) is observed in 6-30% of patients and mortality after repeated reconstructive interventions ranges from 13% to 25%. Double balloon ...
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Intracorporeal bi-directional pouch jejunojejunostomy following Roux-en-Y anastomosis: a simple reconstruction technique using an endoscopic linear stapler.

Intracorporeal pouch jejunojejunostomy (JJ) is a technically challenging procedure during totally laparoscopic gastrectomy (TLG). This study introduced a new method involving the construction of an ...
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OABG Not Superior to RYGB for Weight Loss, Metabolism

There is no advantage to performing one-anastomosis gastric bypass (OABG) instead of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in most patients undergoing bariatric surgery, a superiority study shows. "Our ...