Comment on: Conversion of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: Patterns predicting persistent symptoms after revision.

Huynh D, et al. 1 have made a significant contribution to the bariatric literature by studying the conversion of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and evaluating the factors associated with the persistence of symptoms after the revision. To do so, the authors reviewed their own prospectively maintained database between the years 2013 and 2020. Out of the 54 patients who underwent the conversion, 41 patients had gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Surprisingly – or not – 12 patients had persistent GERD symptoms after the revision.
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