Question:
a silastic band with stapling and no intestine removed just bypassed

my surgeon is doing the procedure as listed above with a fobi pouch as well if this makes any sense to you as it sure as heck doesnt for me anyway what is this considered an vbg or a rny i need a definite one or the other so i know what i am dealing with thanks for your help    — Rachel F. (posted on November 19, 2001)

November 19, 2001
It sounds like you are describing a rny surgery. In this surgery the stomach is stapled and a band placed at the bottom of the stapled pouch. The surgeon selects the amount of intestine to bypass and cuts the small intestine brining the cut portion up and attaching it to the stapled portion of the stomach. The bypassed portion of the small intestine is reattached to allow the gastric juices to enter the small instestine below the joining of the small intestine with the pouch - this makes the Y in the rny bypass. The vbg is a vertical banded gastroplasty which is like the first half of the rny and includes the stomach stapeling and banding but not the bypass. I don't know a lot about the Fobi pouch, you may want to look it up in the library here to find out more about it. Good luck.
   — georgiacarol

November 19, 2001
Hi rachel, I thought I'd pass this on to you I've been told that the procedure is called a Fobi Pouch Gastric Bypass. Look up this web page it should tell you. http://www.johnhustedmd.com/procedures.htm Check out the fobi pouch and the other one called a Bilopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch. Wanda Johnson passed this information on to me and hopefully it will help you as well. Have a great day and God Bless.
   — angel_wls

November 19, 2001

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