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Abdominal Pain After Gastric Bypass

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Obesity remains a worldwide disease, often with social, physical and psychological involvement that results in worsening of quality of life and increased risk to health. Among its possibilities of surgical treatment, gastric bypass is still a procedure of greater choice for most patients, being well established both by conventional and laparoscopic approach in the major centers of bariatric surgery. As with all surgical procedures, this surgery allows complications of early and late stroke, most of them presenting with abdominal pain or discomfort, which should be evaluated in order to better understand and treatment.

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Morrell, A.C., Morrell, A.L.G., Morrell, A.C., Morrell, A.G. (2020). Abdominal Pain After Gastric Bypass. In: Ettinger, J., et al. Gastric Bypass. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28803-7_28

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