A gastric bypass surgery reduces the size of your stomach. Understand the procedure, potential risks & recovery tips of this weight loss surgery.

In the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, Vincenzo Pilone, MD, PhD, and colleagues reported that small bowel obstruction after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass occurs at a ...

Gastric bypass decreases your stomach size and changes the way your body digests food. After surgery, you’ll likely need to make dietary changes to help your body heal and to get the nutrients ...

Previous research has also linked gastric bypass surgeries to raised risk for bleeding, infections, leaks in the GI tract, bowel obstruction, hernias, ulcers, a complication called gastric dumping ...

March 21, 2014— -- Doctors at the Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center were unable today to give a 12-year-old girl weighing over 200 pounds a full gastric bypass after they found her liver ...