Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery

Mini Gastric Bypass surgery (MGBS) is a minimally invasive procedure compared with roux-en-y gastric bypass. Compared with roux-en-y gastric bypass, the mini gastric bypass has been shown to have no considerable disadvantages after two years and is relatively safer than traditional gastric bypass.

How Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery is Performed

The main difference between mini-gastric bypass and any(roux-en-y) gastric bypass pertains to the new stomach created and the connections to the intestines. With the rny gastric bypass, a small pouch is created from the first stomach, then attached to the pipes that bypassed the duodenum. With the mini gastric bypass, patients stomachs are carved to resemble a small tube that is then connected to the digestive tract to allow digestive juices to flow with food.

MGBS uses only one connection to the digestive tract while any gastric bypass uses two connections. This key difference proves to be safer in studies, but more long-term studies are needed to test the efficacy of MGBS compared with RNY gastric bypass.

Benefits of Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery

Mini Gastric Bypass excels with low rates of complications (up to 7.5% of patients) and little need for revisional surgery (only 1.7% require revisional bariatric surgery).

Disadvantages of Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery

Unlike gastric bypass, MGBS doesn’t have many long-term results that can cause its effectiveness into doubt. Only a handful of surgeons in the United States and Mexico are capable of performing MGBS.

Overall, mini gastric bypass surgery is a very promising procedure that many bariatric surgeons are suggesting can become highly performed.