Before taking such an important decision, it is essential to know all the details of a surgery of these characteristics. At Plenitas we know that the information we give to our future patients and our ability to address all their doubts, both human and technical, result in a better relationship with our team, who help the patient fell more confident about the chosen procedure. Our mission is to succeed at providing the best care and support before, during and after treatment.

Summary of this efficient technique:
In this is a restrictive technique food does not pass through the stomach, therefore the patient feels full by eating less food.
It is advisable for people with a mass body index of 40. ( calculate your BMI )
It causes a sufficient loss of weight on 40% of patients.
These patients succeed in making a substantial change on their feeding behavior.

How is the Gastric Bypass Surgery (Bariatric Surgery) performed

 

At Plenitas we are aware of the most relevant and state-to-the-art technical and medical improvements of every surgery we perform. Nowadays, technology has gone such a long way that excellent results can be achieved considerably reducing risks.

In addition, a team of trained professionals in Argentina, most important schools of the world and the well-know amicable treatment of Argentineans, result in a unique combination of care and support that surprises the people who come from both America and Europe.

Gastric bypass (bariatric surgery) is performed through laparoscopic techniques. These techniques consist in using special tools that are inserted by making small incisions, so that the treated area is watched on a closed circuit monitor. The incisions made, which are less than 1 cm of length, leave virtually no surgery trauma and subsequent postoperative pain has become considerably more bearable.

The technique used for gastric bypass (bariatric surgery) is known as 'Roux en Y' due to the Y shape that the food circulation circuit takes due to the surgery.

In regular stomachs that have not undergone surgery, food is digested by gastric fluids and then it goes to the intestine. Bariatric Surgery eliminates this part of the process.  

Through a suture line the stomach is divided in two parts (1) : superior and inferior pouch. These two pouches have very different sizes: the superior one receives digested food, takes only 10% of the stomach capacity, whereas the inferior pouch takes the remaining 90% and it is absolutely isolated from the food path.

The small bowel is cut (2) at about 40 cm from the stomach outlet and it is connected to the recently created superior pouch, so that food goes straight to the bowel without being processed by gastric fluids concentrated on the inferior pouch.

The bowel part that is still connected to the stomach outlet by one of it ends, joins the other end (3) (where the incision was made) to the untouched part of the bowel, about one meter ahead. (4) Through this part of the bowel the large pouch will discharge acids and gastric fluids that will mix with billiard fluid and the food that has “skipped” a meter of the absorptive area of the bowel.