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Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis

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In some cases, in addition to the usual difficulties that the bariatric surgeon may encounter during standard bariatric procedures, anatomical anomalies such as situs inversus can pose an additional technical challenge. A 58-year-old patient with total situs inversus underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery in our department. The main difficulty was the realization of a mirrored RYGB. Laparoscopic RYGB in a patient with situs inversus totalis is feasible but requires significant concentration and three-dimensional coordination to perform the mirrored procedure.

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  1. Department of Digestive, Oncologique and Bariatric Surgery, AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and Univsersité de Paris, UFR Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Tigran Poghosyan, Matthieu Bruzzi, Jean-Marc Chevallier & Richard Douard

  2. Department of Nutrition, AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and Univsersité de Paris, UFR Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Claire Rives-Lange & Sebastien Czernichow

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Poghosyan, T., Bruzzi, M., Rives-Lange, C. et al. Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis. OBES SURG 30, 2462–2463 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-020-04549-6

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