What makes a gastric bypass a good gastric bypass? Opinion and hypothesis

Gastric bypass is widely accepted as the gold standard bariatric operation. It was first reported 1967 and has been the subject of many technical alterations and variations since that time. Each of these variations has the potential to confer different outcomes, in terms of such things as weight loss, ease of surgery, risk, complications and durability of weight loss. All variations being performed these days should be accomplished with high levels of safety, in which case the primary interest of those undergoing surgery is the degree of weight loss that can be expected and the durability of that weight loss. Broadly speaking these two features will also determine the degree to which all co-morbidities are improved, which is also a goal of those undergoing surgery. In this article the authors describe the features of the Fobi Pouch gastric bypass which make it the most predictable and reliable variant of gastric bypass and report such evidence in the literature as exists for their contentions.