Сase of successful treatment of chronic gastric remnant haemorrhagic ulcer after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Acute bleeding from a gastric remnant ulcer is an exceptionally rare complication, especially if it occurs several years after bariatric surgery. We present a case of a patient with a bleeding gastric remnant ulcer that occurred 6 years (2013–2019) after the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) performed for morbid obesity. The patient was urgently hospitalized in the surgical department with the clinic of gastrointestinal bleeding, according to fibroesophagogastroscopy, no sources of bleeding were found in the examined departments. On the background of conservative treatment, there was an improvement in the condition, but on the fifth day of hospitalization there was a clinic of recurrence of bleeding, while repeated emergency endoscopic examination of the sources also did not reveal. In this regard, it was decided to perform surgery to examine the «residual» stomach. With the help of laparoscopic transgastric gastroduodenoscopy, we were able to detect the source of active bleeding in the stomach excluded from digestion - a bleeding ulcer in the area of small curvature. The removal of this stomach was performed with a good postoperative recovery: the patient was discharged in a satisfactory condition for outpatient treatment, currently feels well, returned to work.

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