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WEIGHT loss; MEDICAL terminology; GASTRIC bypass; WEIGHT gain; SMALL intestine

Ann's gastric bypass meant that her food was going down one limb of small bowel, but her pancreas was dumping digestive enzymes into another, and there was no food going through that area at all. But Ann did not have chronic pancreatitis - her CT scan had shown a normal pancreas. Several bariatric surgeries exist, but after meeting with our surgeon, Ann had decided to undergo a specific bariatric procedure known as a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. [Extracted from the article]

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