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Management of Achalasia in a Bariatric Patient Post Sleeve Gastrectomy
Benjamin Veenstra^*, John M. Weeman, Steven P. Bowers

General Surgery, Mayo Clinic of Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Achalasia in the bariatric population is rare, with an incidence described in the literature of 1%. In the post bariatric surgery patient, the incidence is exceedingly rare, limited to a few case studies. To our knowledge, there is only one reported case in the literature, out of Singapore, of achalasia after a sleeve gastrectomy. We present our management of a post sleeve gastrectomy patient who developed achalasia. Our patient was treated with a Heller myotomy and conversion of her sleeve to a roux en y gastric bypass.

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