Vague abdominal pain after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: not always an internal herniation: case report and literature review.

CONCLUSIONS: Abdominal pain after gastric bypass is a frequent cause of admission to the emergency department. Besides the more serious complications, internal hernia is often withheld as possible diagnosis in the differential diagnosis of late onset, postprandial epigastric pain. This case report highlights another possibility. At initial surgery, a candy cane shaped blind loop should be avoided both at the gastro-jejunal as well as the entero-enteric anastomosis. PMID: 30900521 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Chirurgica Belgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Acta Chir Belg Source Type: research