INTRODUCTION: Vertical gastroplasty is increasingly used in the surgical treatment of morbid obesity, being used alone or as part of the duodenal switch surgery or even in intestinal bipartition (Santoro technique). When used alone has only a restrictive character. METHOD: Is proposed association of jejunoileal bypass to vertical gastroplasty, in order to give a metabolic component to the procedure and eventually empower it to medium and long term. Eight morbidly obese patients were operated after removal of adjustable gastric band or as a primary procedure associated to vertical banded gastroplasty with jejunoileal bypass laterolateral and anastomosis between the jejunum 80 cm from duodenojejunal angle and the ileum at 120 cm from ileocecal valve, by laparoscopy. RESULTS: The patients presented themselves without complications both in trans or in the immediate postoperative period, and also in the months that followed. The evolution BMI showed a significant reduction ranging from 39.57 kg/m² to 28 kg/m². No patient reported diarrhea or malabsorptive disorder in the period. CONCLUSION: It can be offered a new therapeutic option, with restraining and metabolic aspects, in which there are no consequences as the ones founded in procedures with duodenal diversion or intestinal transit alterations.
Sleeve gastrectomy; Jejunoileal diversion; Obesity; Surgery
