Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) is the most widely used bariatric surgery procedure, which induces profound metabolic and physiological effects, such as substantial improvements in obesity ...

2).This is a proximal gastric bypass (using a 100- to 150-cm Roux-en-Y or alimentary limb is the norm in the United States). A small 30- to 50-mL proximal gastric pouch is created by dividing it ...

We performed a laparoscopic lengthening of the Roux limb by additional 120 cm resulting in a new alimentary limb of 160 ... of a gastrectomy by laparoscopic en-bloc resection of the ...