Chronic Marginal Ulcers After Gastric Bypass

Completed

Conditions studied: Marginal Ulcer, Chronic Ulcer Disease, Persistent Ulcer Disease, Recurrent Ulcer Disease, Late Morbidity After Gastric Bypass

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of revision gastroplasty along with other adjunct procedures in the treatment of intractable / chronic marginal ulcers after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. A secondary aim is the identification of good and poor outcome predictors after revisional strategies for intractable or chronic marginal ulcer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01041079

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

50

Starts

2008-12-01

Expected to finish

2009-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-01-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Chronic/Intractable, either recurrent or persistent, marginal ulcers after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery for clinically severe obesity

You may not qualify if…

• Chronic or Intractable marginal ulcer after other bariatric procedures
• Revision or re-operation by open approach
• missing records and/or unreachable patients with scant information for analysis

Where it is running

• University of California San Francisco, Department of Surgery/Fresno Medical Education Program — Fresno, California, United States

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