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Milan Korcok

JAMA. 1981;246(21):2420-2422.

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Of all surgical techniques used for the management of morbid obesity, gastric partitioning or gastroplasty has emerged in the opinion of some as the procedure of choice, leaving behind such precursors as ileocolic, jejunoileal, and gastric bypasses.

But gastric partitioning (more popularly known as gastric stapling) too has spawned its own technical variants and problems and, according to a surgical team from the University of Ottawa, remains a "dangerous operation" with "far from ideal success" and "poorly documented" results.

The report, presented by Alan J. Byrne, MD, research fellow in the Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa School of Medicine, at the 50th annual meeting of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, indicates that although gastric partitioning is simpler than the earlier bypass modes, a number of complications occur, the most common of which are associated with staple disruption, pouch dilation, and stoma dilation.

In a review . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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