Maternal and Fetal Deaths after Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity
- 12 August 2004
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 351 (7) , 721-722
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200408123510722
Abstract
Antiobesity operations, particularly the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, are increasingly common. In the United States, 103,000 such operations were performed in 2003.1 We report a complication of a gastric bypass procedure that resulted in the death of a pregnant woman and of her fetus.Keywords
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