naa a22 4500 510727549 CHVBK 20180411082941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11748-012-0120-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11748-012-0120-5 Nwiloh Jonathan Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Atlanta Medical Center, 303 Parkway Drive, 30312, NE Atlanta, GA, USA aut Self-expanding stents in treatment of esophageal leaks post bariatric surgery [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Nwiloh] The Alimaxx self-expanding metal stents were used in two morbidly obese patients with esophageal leaks complicating reoperative bariatric surgery. Although the patients could be maintained on oral intake with their sepsis controlled, surgery was ultimately required for non-healing after 3weeks of conservative management. Self-expanding metal stent should be considered the preferred treatment in small esophageal leaks less than 1cm in morbidly obese patients who generally pose a higher operative risk due to concomitant co-morbidities. Stents are also useful adjuncts in patients with larger leaks that are either inoperable or need further stabilization at presentation and those preferring an initial 2-3weeks trial of conservative management before contemplating surgery. The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, 2012 Stents nationallicence Esophageal injury/perforation nationallicence General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Springer Japan 61/1(2013-01-01), 38-42 1863-6705 61:1<38 2013 61 11748 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-012-0120-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-012-0120-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nwiloh Jonathan Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Atlanta Medical Center, 303 Parkway Drive, 30312, NE Atlanta, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Springer Japan 61/1(2013-01-01), 38-42 1863-6705 61:1<38 2013 61 11748 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer