WHAT IS RNY GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY?
Gastric bypass describes changes to the digestive system aimed at reducing a person's calorie intake. It has two purposes:
To restrict food intake
Reducing food absorption
If we look briefly at the history of bariatric surgery, we can better understand its logic.
In the 1950s, American surgeons first tried to make short cuts in the intestines (bypass) in overweight people so that food would not be absorbed, but they abandoned this method when cases of diarrhea, bone resorption, liver failure and even death occurred. In the 1960s they focused on the stomach.
They put a silicone ring (gastric clamp) in the entrance of the stomach, but they gave up on that too when it caused injuries to the stomach over the years. Then, when they observed that ulcer patients who had part of their stomach removed lost weight, they focused on reducing the volume of the stomach and started to perform gastric bypass surgery. In other words, they both reduced the size of the stomach and created a shortcut in the intestine (gastric bypass). When the closed method, laparoscopy, was introduced in the 90s, they decided to divide the surgery into two stages because gastric bypass surgery took too long and complications increased in overweight patients. They told the patients to do only stomach reduction and come back after 1 year. But something unexpected happened! The patients did not come back for the bowel surgery (bypass) because they had all lost weight. In this way, by coincidence, the most common 'TUBE STOMACH SURGERY' was discovered!
We put gastric bypass surgery in the second stage, inspired by the American experience. Gastric sleeve gastrectomy is more than enough to lose weight and get rid of comorbidities. However, if there is weight gain again for different reasons, we revise the sleeve gastrectomy and turn it into gastric bypass.
Although there are more than one gastric bypass method, the most commonly applied rny gastric bypass. It is followed by mini gastric bypass and duodenal switch respectively.
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