{"title":"Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass","url":"https:\/\/go.openathens.net\/redirector\/shalina.com?url=https:\/\/ebsco.smartimagebase.com\/view-item?ItemID=65469","id":"ANS00320","category":null,"therapy_area":["Gastroenterology"," Surgery"],"keywords":null,"description":"This 3D medical animation demonstrates a gastric bypass or Roux-en-Y procedure. MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Gastric bypass, technically referred to as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is both a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure because it reduces the size of the stomach and decreases the absorption of calories in the small intestine. Your surgeon will use one of two methods for a gastric bypass surgery. The open method requires an 8 to 10-inch incision in the abdomen. The laparoscopic method only requires several small keyhole incisions through which your surgeon will pass a laparoscope and surgical tools. A laparoscope is a thin-laded instrument that projects images of the surgery on a monitor in the operating room. During a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure, your surgeon will use surgical staples to create a small compartment which will serve as your new stomach. This pouch will hold about one cup of food. The lower portion of the stomach continues to secrete digestive juices, but does not receive food. Next, your surgeon will cut the small intestine well beyond the stomach and bring one free end up and attach it to the pouch. He or she will then attach the other free end lower down on the small intestine, creating a Y shape. By bypassing the lower stomach and the first part of the small intestine, fewer calories will be absorbed as food passes through this new pathway."}
This 3D medical animation demonstrates a gastric bypass or Roux-en-Y procedure. MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Gastric bypass, technically referred to as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is both a restrictive and malabsorptive procedure because it reduces the size of the stomach and decreases the absorption of calories in the small intestine. Your surgeon will use one of two methods for a gastric bypass surgery. The open method requires an 8 to 10-inch incision in the abdomen. The laparoscopic method only requires several small keyhole incisions through which your surgeon will pass a laparoscope and surgical tools. A laparoscope is a thin-laded instrument that projects images of the surgery on a monitor in the operating room. During a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure, your surgeon will use surgical staples to create a small compartment which will serve as your new stomach. This pouch will hold about one cup of food. The lower portion of the stomach continues to secrete digestive juices, but does not receive food. Next, your surgeon will cut the small intestine well beyond the stomach and bring one free end up and attach it to the pouch. He or she will then attach the other free end lower down on the small intestine, creating a Y shape. By bypassing the lower stomach and the first part of the small intestine, fewer calories will be absorbed as food passes through this new pathway.
