Roux En Y Gastric Bypass
Type of bariatric surgery for weight loss that involves
1.Creation of small stomach pouch
2.Connecting the new stomach pouch directly to bypass length of small intestine.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a type of weight loss surgery that involves creating a small stomach pouch and rerouting the small intestine to this new pouch.
Benefits of Roux En Y Gastric Bypass
Very good short term weight loss (75- 83 percent excess weight loss) Lasting, long term results. The data show that up to 20 years after surgery, most patients maintain more than 50 percent of their excess weight loss.
Average weight loss is greater than with other procedures, such as Laparoscopic Adjustable Band and Sleeve Gastrectomy.
RYGB doesn’t require any devices or foreign objects like band to stay inside you.
Excellent remission of obesity-related health problems like
1. Resolving Type 2 diabetes in more than 80 percent of patients.
2. Resolving high blood pressure in more than 70 percent of patients.
3. Improving high cholesterol in more than 90 percent of patients.
