Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is one of the safe and easily reproducible bariatric procedures. To evaluate the effect of biliopancreatic limb (BPL) and alimentary limb (AL) length on weight loss ...

The highest incidence of internal hernia was found to be following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (68%); the biliopancreatic ... The most common hernia direction of the biliopancreatic limb was from left to ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is one of the most common ... with anastomosis of the distal portion (the alimentary, or Roux, limb) to the gastric pouch. The proximal end of the divided jejunum (the ...

Biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) has 2 components: a limited gastrectomy and the creation of a long-limb Roux-en-Y anastomosis with a short, 50-cm alimentary channel. The latter is accomplished by ...

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 ...