TY - JOUR T1 - Acute dysphagia: an unusual treatable cause JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 802 LP - 802 DO - 10.1136/emj.2007.052043 VL - 24 IS - 11 AU - Jonathan Mathers AU - Ashis Banerjee AU - David Mbamalu Y1 - 2007/11/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/24/11/802.abstract N2 - Bariatric surgery is a rapidly expanding surgical sub-speciality, with a large proportion of the relevant surgical procedures being performed in the private sector. Acute complications of newer surgical procedures can lead to emergency department presentation, with which the staff may be unfamiliar. A 34-year-old woman was seen in the emergency department with acute total dysphagia following laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, which was treated successfully by a simple bedside procedure. ER -