Abstract
Mini-gastric bypass is a common procedure for bariatric surgery. This procedure creates and excluded gastric remnant and this part can’t be accessed easily. Some complications of this gastric remnant has been reported but there is not a reported case of acute bleeding from there. Our report presents and 37 year old woman who had undergone bariatric surgery 6 years ago. Mini-gastric bypass was performed to this patient. The patient comes to the emergency service with signs of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. After hospitalization, examinations showed us that the patient was bleeding from the remnant stomach. The remnant stomach and the first part of the duodenum were resected with laparoscopic surgery. At 6 months followup, the patient has had no further episodes of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Keywords: Gastric remnant; Hemorrhagic ulcer; Mini-gastric bypass; Red blood cell scintigraphy.
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