Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Annals of Surgery
- Vol. 194 (2), 152-160
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-198108000-00007
Abstract
With the operative modifications and dietary guidelines described death and complications from gastric bypass were minimal and weight loss was marked. Ninety percent of a group of 69 patients lost more than half of their excess weight within the 1st 2 yr after operation. Stringent preselection of patients for operation was crucial to the success of the operation and marked alterations of eating behavior was necessary to achieve the weight loss. Mild electrolyte deficiencies and hypovitaminosis occurred in up to 1/4 of the patients. While none of these abnormalities was harmful to the patients and all were easily corrected, their occurrence demonstrates the importance of long-term follow-up after the operation. Gastric bypass, with a 50-60 cc pouch and a small (1-1.2 cm) gastrojejunostomy, evidently remains the operation of choice for morbid obesity.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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