Ralki Mike, Cassiman David, Van Dongen Jurgen, Ferrante Michel, Van Overbeke Lode
Department of internal medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, Leuven 3000, Belgium.
Department of hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, Leuven 3000, Belgium.
Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol. 2017 Jun;41(3):e32-e37. doi: 10.1016/j.clinre.2016.11.004. Epub 2016 Dec 8.
Liver failure is reported with increasing frequency in patients who underwent bariatric surgery for morbid obesity. In most cases, liver transplantation is the only possible treatment to avoid fatal outcome. Although most cases are observed after older bariatric surgery techniques characterized by high malabsorption rates, we report on a 38-year-old woman who developed liver failure seven months after long-limb gastric bypass.
