Evaluation of Patients Who Underwent Sleeve Gastrectomy With Jejunoileal Anastomosis for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity

The sleeve gastrectomy was performed first, after using a sealer and divider device to dissect the omentum away from the greater gastric curvature from approximately 5 cm proximal to the pylorus up to the angle of His. Excision of the fundus and the body of the stomach was then performed with a laparoscopic linear stapler upon a 36 French orogastric tube (bougie). An isoperistaltic side-to-side anastomosis between the jejunum (at 50 cm distal to the Treitz ligament) and the distal ileum ( at 200 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve) was then created using the same linear stapler with a blue cartridge (3.5 mm). A soft Penrose drain was left at the subdiaphragmatic space, and the abdominal wound was closed.