Biliary Limb as a Percentage From the Small Intestine Rather Than Fixed Length in Loop Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity

Minia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity, Morbid

Treatments: Other: biliary limb as fixed length; Other: biliary limb as a percentage from small intestine length

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04826055

fac.med 21.17

Details and patient eligibility

About

in all loop bypass bariatric procedure (mini gastric bypass & single anastomosis sleeve jejunal bypass), biliary limb is fixed length. we do it as a percentage from total small intestine length rather than fixed length

Full description

in all loop bypass bariatric procedure (mini gastric bypass & single anastomosis sleeve jejunal bypass), biliary limb is fixed length we count the length of small intestine and do it as a percentage from total small intestine length rather than fixed length

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• obese patients with BMI more than 40 or more than 35 with comorbidity
• patients fit for laparoscopic surgery
• give approval to share in the study

Exclusion criteria

• patients refused to share in the study
• patients unfit for surgery
• patients aged less than 18 and older than 50
• patients with BMI less than 35
• patient with previous upper abdominal surgery either for obesity or other diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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210 participants in 2 patient groups

loop bypass with fixed biliary limb length

Active Comparator group

Description:

in all loop bypass procedures we will don't count the total length of small intestine and make the biliary limb as a fixed from total small intestine length as mentioned in literature

Treatment:

Other: biliary limb as fixed length

loop bypass with a biliary limb is a percentage of the small intestine

Experimental group

Description:

in all loop bypass procedures we count the total length of small intestine and make the biliary limb as a percentage from total small intestine length rather than fixed length

Treatment:

Other: biliary limb as a percentage from small intestine length