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The Fobi-Pouch
The Fobi-Pouch has been performed successfully in one form or another for many years. Also called the Transected Vertical Gastric Bypass with a Silastic Ring Band, or gastrostomy with a gastrostomy site marker, the increasingly popular procedure is a modified version of one whose roots date back to the early 20th century.
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There are three important statistics that make the procedure significant.
- First of all, it is 95% effective, meaning that most people who undergo the Fobi-Pouch procedure lose more than 40% of their excess weight and maintain that weight loss for more than five years.
- Second, fewer than 1% of recipients fail to survive the surgery.
- And third, fewer than 10% experience poor health as a result of the operation. Clearly, variations of the procedure would not have been used for more than a century if desired results were not produced.