What Is Roux-En-Y Bypass?
Named after its inventor Roux, a French surgeon, Roux-en-Y bypass is a severe obesity treatment that can significantly decrease the excess body weight of an obese individual. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) endorses in their Consensus report this bariatric procedure as a way to effectively treat seriously obese individuals, especially those who are suffering from fatal conditions associated with morbid obesity.
Today, the Roux-en-Y bypass is the most common and most employed bariatric procedure in the United States. Around 70% of bariatric surgeons primarily use this procedure in many of their weight loss surgeries. There are other types of gastric bypass methods like Biliopancreatic Diversion Stomach bypass and Duodenal Switch Stomach Bypass, but the Roux-en-Y bypass is significantly easier and more efficient.
For more than 30 years, the Roux-en-Y bypass procedure has been performed by a number of bariatric surgeons around the world. All throughout these years, the method has shown an incredibly high long term success rate. The procedure has also impressively established a less than 1% mortality rate, as well as post operation complications and issues. An initial 50% to 75% weight loss can be expected among many of the patients who have undergone Roux-en-Y bypass. That is quite an impressive result, because it nearly eliminates many serious health issues that come with severe obesity.
The basic foundation of a Roux-en-Y bypass procedure is really quite the same for many gastric bypass surgeries. It generally focuses on two fronts: the restrictive aspect and the malabsorptive aspect of the process. The first aspect, which is the restrictive part of the procedure, reduces the amount of food that an individual can eat. The second, which is the malabsorptive aspect, reduces the level of absorption of nutrients and calories, which comes from the food taken in.
Many of you may not know that a human stomach can stretch to up to around 1,000 milliliters. A bariatric surgeon, using the Roux-en-Y bypass procedure, will try to reduce the stomach capacity to around 15 to 30 milliliters. This is the restrictive part of the whole procedure. It can considerably reduce the amount of food that the stomach can contain. The second part of the procedure will be the malabsorption aspect. This is where the bariatric surgeon will attempt to bypass a substantial portion of the gastrointestinal tract, since the whole process of absorption of nutrients and calories takes place in the small intestine.
Both the restrictive and malabsorptive aspect of the procedure is what makes the Roux-en-Y bypass quite a remarkable, as well as an effective, treatment for obesity.
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