How is the Gastric Bypass done and how does the operation help me lose weight?
The patient is brought to the operating room and goes to sleep with general anesthesia. Six small incisions were made in the abdomen and carbon dioxide is placed inside the abdomen creating enough room to see its contents and to carry out the operation. A telescope is inserted through one of those incisions and the gastric pouch is created from the patient’s stomach by using a special device that staples and cuts. The pouch is created around a tube that is inserted through the patient’s mouth and into the stomach. The pouch is approximately 5-6 cm by 1-2 cm and holds approximately 30-40 CC. The small bowel is then divided approximately 50-100 cm from where it begins in the abdomen and the downstream segment (the Roux limb) is connected to the gastric pouch using a special stapling device that staples and cuts. The upstream segment (biliopancreatic limb) is then reconnected to the downstream segment at a distance that is selected to correspond to the patient’s BMI, again using the speci
