Liver failure after long-limb gastric bypass.

Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol

Department of gastroenterology and hepatology, AZ Sint-Maarten Hospital, Leopoldstraat 2, Mechelen 2800, Belgium.

Published: June 2017

Liver failure is reported with increasing frequency in patients who underwent bariatric surgery for morbid obesity. In most cases, liver transplantation is the only possible treatment to avoid fatal outcome. Although most cases are observed after older bariatric surgery techniques characterized by high malabsorption rates, we report on a 38-year-old woman who developed liver failure seven months after long-limb gastric bypass.

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