View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Doctors first began offering jejunoileal bypass, one of the earliest bariatric surgeries, in the late 1960s, after surgeons noticed that patients ...

especially in light of the reports of hepatic failure associated with jejunoileal bypass. A case of hepatic failure following biliopancreatic diversion was also reported in 1992. After the loss of ...

Surgical therapy for obesity has become popular in the past decade and surgical techniques have improved markedly from the early malabsorptive surgical approaches such as jejunoileal bypass ...