Gastric bypass surgery is not about losing weight the easy way and looking good, the operation is about improving health.
There are several types of gastric bypass procedures, but all of them involve bypassing part of the small bowel by greater or lesser degrees. Surgical options Gastric bypass procedures involve constructing a gastric pouch whose outlet is a Y-shaped limb of small bowel of varying lengths. By far, the most common procedure is the gastric bypass, which is done both open and laparoscopically.
In most types of gastric bypass surgeries done today only 50 cm of the intestine is allowed to function in normal fashion.
How is the gastric bypass surgery different than the LAP-BAND? Generally, gastric bypass patients stay in the hospital one to two days following surgery, and recovery takes approximately one to three weeks. With laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, most patients are completely back to normal activities around three weeks after surgery.
Of the several surgical variations of gastric bypass now available, the most widely used is the “Roux-en-Y” procedure. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass involves dividing the...
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