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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 127-129 |
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Uneventful sleeve gastrectomy post bariatric arterial embolization
Majed A Ashour1, Ahmed Saliman Karsou1, Adel A Bakhsh2
1 King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2 Saliman Faqeeh Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Majed A Ashour
Department of Radiology, Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/AJIR.AJIR_25_20
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We present the case of a 42-year-old female patient who successfully and uneventfully underwent gastric sleeve surgery 3-years after left gastric artery embolization, for the treatment of obesity. This case highlights that left gastric artery embolization may not preclude future bariatric surgeries in this subset of patients who initially fail to lose weight after bariatric arterial embolization (BAE).
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