Advanced laparoscopic operations can be performed in patients who have previously undergone laparoscopic gastric bypass, because there are fewer adhesions than after open procedures. Also, revisions of previous laparoscopic gastric bypasses can be done laparoscopically for the same reasons. To demonstrate this, we present a patient who had undergon...
Between January 1987 and October 1991, 1466patients underwent consecutive Orthotopic LiverTransplantation (OLTx) at the University of Pittsburgh.Forty of these patient's had concomitant splenectomywith OLTx. These patients were compared to 147randomly selected OLTx patients without splenectomywithin the same time period. One-year patient and grafts...