Obesity Surgery Center of Monterrey

Gastric By-Pass Pre-Operative Education Guide

Pre-Operative Diet

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, as performed at our Monterrey, Mexico facility, is the most commonly practiced obesity surgery worldwide. Dr. Roberto Rumbaut is proud of the tremendous success in weight loss among his Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients from around the world.

Dr. Rumbaut usually recommends Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery for those patients who eat continuously throughout the day or who are addicted to sweets. Because it restricts appetite and limits absorption of nutrients and calories, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery allows patients to achieve rapid and lasting weight loss. To be a candidate for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery at our Monterrey, Mexico clinic, you must have a body mass index of at least 40, 35 if you also suffer from certain comorbid physical conditions.

Dr. Rumbaut performs Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery at the San José Hospital in Monterrey, Mexico laparoscopically. This means that instead of a large incision, he makes a series of very small incisions through which he passes the laparoscope, or optical telescope, to guide him as he cuts and separates a small stomach pouch directly below the esophagus. In the next step in the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery procedure, Dr. Rumbaut cuts the small intestine 20 inches after its origin. He then attaches the end still connected to the lower intestinal tract directly to the new stomach pouch. The end still attached to the now-detached stomach he connects to the small intestine about 40 to 60 inches down the intestinal tract.

After Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery at our Monterrey, Mexico Obesity Center, ingested food passes only through the limb of intestine attached to the small stomach pouch, also known as the Roux limb. Food does not pass through the bypassed limb of intestine. Nutrients and calories are not absorbed in the Roux limb due to the absence of digestive juices there. However, those digestive juices continue to pass through the bypassed limb, meeting up with food much farther down the small intestine where the bypassed limb reconnects with the Roux limb. The longer the Roux limb, the less absorption of calories and nutrients to the body, the greater the weight loss.

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