As an AU could not be detected further diagnostic investigations were performed: Upper gastrointestinal (GI) contrast series revealing a small gastric pouch without signs of a gastric fistula and ...

Gastric bypass has two parts: During the procedure, your surgeon makes your stomach smaller. They create a small, egg-shaped pouch out of the walls of the top of your stomach. They connect this pouch ...

It then passes into the large intestine (colon), and the remaining waste is eventually excreted. In Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, we make a small “pouch” out of the stomach and connect this pouch with ...

Gastric bypass surgery makes your stomach smaller and reroutes your intestines. This changes how you digest food so that you absorb fewer calories. It also helps you eat less and feel full faster.

Q. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s running for president, had obesity surgery. What exactly did he have done and does it work? A. Gov. Christie had Adjustable Gastric Band surgery ...

Only after gastrectomy by laparoscopic en-bloc resection of the gastrojejunostomy, the gastric pouch and resection of the gastric remnant with reconstruction by esophagojejunostomy the patient ...