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

For over 25 years, numerous papers [1,2] have looked for the best possible combination of the alimentary (Roux) limb (A) and biliopancreatic limb (B) to achieve a satisfactory weight loss in the long term, especially in the populations of patients who have a body mass index>50 kg/m2 in whom weight loss maintenance is more difficult to obtain, even with a powerful procedure like the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch [3]. More recently, as in the present paper [4], the importance of the common channel (C) has also been studied.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial comment Source Type: research