• Weight Loss Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, P. R. China;
WANG Cunchuan, Email: twcc@jnu.edu.cn
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Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a classic operation in the field of obesity metabolic surgery. It not only obviously reduces body weight but also exhibits notable therapeutic efficacy in treating metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. However, it can result in complications such as postoperative dumping syndrome and a lack of satiety after meals. So our team has further modified the RYGB, introducing a long and narrow pouch in RYGB (LN-RYGB), its core is reserving the length of the gastric pouch, then the long and narrow pouch could make maintaining a small gastric volume for a prolonged period, make food pass through slowly, and reduce reflux and decrease the incidences of dumping syndrome and intestinal bile acid reflux relevant to RYGB. The gastric contents could be thoroughly mixed, not only leading to a stronger satiety after meals but also reducing risk of postoperative bounce back. Furthermore, ulcer complications relevant to RYGB markedly declined, the therapeutic outcome is better especially in patients with type 2 diabetes. In future, more results and data relevant to LN-RYGB can be accumulated in clinic to further confirm its safety and effectiveness. Mearnwhile, it should still be paid attended to that LN-RYGB still faccs certain difficulties and has a clear indication. At present, the indications of RYGB are served as reference, and postoperative malnutrition and element deficiency need to be prevented and a long-term follow-up is also necessary.

Citation: HUANG Xiao, HU Songhao, DONG Zhiyong, WANG Cunchuan, Chinese Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Collaborative. Application and prospect of long and narrow pouch in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2024, 31(4): 389-393. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202310016 Copy

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