[Gastric bypass in the surgical treatment of the morbid obesity and super obesity: comparative study].

Introduction: Gastric Bypass (GB) constitutes the surgical treatment of election of morbid obesity (BMI < 50) at the present time, however doubts exist about its effectiveness in super obesity patients (BMI > 50).

Objective: The purpose of this work is one of to analyze the results of loss of weight of the first 52 open GB of our series, and to compare the losses of weight in morbid obesity (MO) and super obesity (SO), to determine if the superobese patient looses enough weight with this technique or if it would be more indicated another technique more malabsorptive, like some authors recommend.

Materials And Method: Retrospective study of the first 52 patients operated of open GB pathway.