Optimizing Results of Gastric Bypass

Mini-gastric Bypass: Description of the Technique and Preliminary Results

BACKGROUND In recent years, a surgical technique known as single-anastomosis gastric bypass or mini-gastric bypass has been developed. Its frequency of performance has increased considerably in the current decade. AIM To describe the mini-gastric bypass technique, its implementation and preliminary results in a university hospital. M...

Gastric bypass Technical aspects and long-term results

Sima, E. 2017. Gastric bypass. Technical aspects and long-term results. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1324. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9889-4. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) achieves superior shortand long-term weight loss compared to other weight loss modalities. Different operative techniques have b...

Mini-Gastric Bypass/One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass—Standardizing the Name

To the Editor: After performing many of the alternatives in bariatric surgery during more than two decades, we read with interest the initial ideas Dr. Rutledge proposed in regard to the Bmini-gastric bypass^ (MGB) and embraced the possibility of performing a very effective operation with fewer risks [1]. Concerned about its major criticism, wemodified the original version of theMGB in order to...

Role of Nasal Skin Massage in Optimizing Secondary Rhinoplasty Results

Gastric Bypass Complications

The mortality rate after gastric bypass is 0.18% or about 1 out of 350 people (1/350). The mortality rate for gastric bypass is similar to the mortality rate for other major general surgical procedures done on a group of patients who are obese and have multiple health problems. Risk of dying from any procedure depends on the general health, age, and weight of the individual. Clearly people who ...