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Gastric Bypass Surgery Causes Pregnant Mother to Lose her Fetus

A pregnant woman has died of complications related to gastric bypass surgery. Her death occurred 18 months after she underwent the surgical procedure, and was apparently due to a tear in her small intestine that resulted from the gastric bypass surgical procedure.

Here's how it happened -- when she was 8 months pregnant, she suddenly began suffering from stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting. She was admitted to the emergency room, where doctors discovered that her fetus had died and that her small intestine had herniated.

This is the first known incident of this type, but it is raising questions about the safety of gastric bypass surgery -- and more importantly, whether women who intend to get pregnant should be undergoing the procedure.

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