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We present a case of gastroesophageal junction leak after gastric bypass with serious sepsis and hemodynamic instability. Minimally invasive treatment was performed in two stages: initial sepsis control by lavage and endoscopy-assisted laparoscopic placement of an intraluminal esophageal drainage tube through the leak orifice; this was followed by definitive leak treatment with a self-expandable covered...
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage is an infrequent major complication of gastric bypass. We present a 22-year-old morbidly obese man who underwent a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and had several life-threatening hemorrhages from both the gastric pouch and gastric remnant, associated with an intra-abdominal hemorrhage. The patient underwent two subsequent reoperations, leading eventually to gastrectomy...
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