Comment on: Distal gastric bypass - 2 m biliopancreatic limb construction with varying lengths of common channel

For over 25 years 1,2, numerous papers have looked for the best possible combination of the alimentary (Roux) limb (A) and biliopancreatic limb (B) to achieve a satisfactory weight loss on the long term especially in the populations of patients who have a body mass index (BMI) over 50 kg/m2 in whom weight loss maintenance is more difficult to obtain even with such a powerful procedure as the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch 3. More recently, as in the present paper4, the importance of the common channel (C) has also been studied.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research