Complications of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: our local experience.

Obesity is a major medical problem both within Australia as well as throughout the developed world. Achievement of weight loss for any individual patient brings an additional desirable benefit of improvement or resolution of a wide range of comorbid conditions. Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention and treatment of obesity and allied diseases.

Prolonged Intestinal Mucosal Barium Coating due to Ischemic Necrosis.

A case of a 63-year-old man with small bowel ischemia six weeks after transplantation surgery is presented. Plain abdominal radiograph obtained several days after ingestion of barium shows the sign of prolonged barium coating indicating severe mucosal damage. Abdominal CT scan demonstrates small bowel wall thickening as well as pockets of peritoneal fluid collections.