Patients who underwent biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch surgery reported high mental and physical component scores 12 years after surgery, according to recent study findings. “The ...

Researchers report that a newer operation, the duodenal switch, produced substantially better weight loss in super-obese patients (BMI greater than 50) than gastric bypass, the standard operation.

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A less usual and common type of obesity surgery may spur more weight loss than its far more popular cousin, gastric bypass - but at the price of greater long-term risks, researchers reported. The ...

September 8, 2011 — Compared with gastric bypass bariatric surgery, the harms of duodenal switch surgery may outweigh the benefits, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported ...

Background: Patients with morbid obesity have an increased risk for anxiety and depression. The "duodenal switch" is perhaps the most effective obesity surgery procedure for inducing weight loss.

A study comparing bariatric surgical procedures for obesity suggests that even though undergoing the less commonly used biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch (DS) may be associated with higher ...

A randomized, parallel-group trial has demonstrated that duodenal switch induces greater weight loss than gastric bypass in patients who are severely obese. Gastric bypass is considered the gold ...

As some of you know, I’ve been looking into different weight loss techniques as of late. I’m currently on the Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery program by Rena Greenberg, which I’ll be posting a halfway ...

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) produces excellent weight-loss results in the majority of obese patients, but seems to be less effective in the super-obese (those with a BMI ≥50 kg/m 2). Studies ...

In the first large, single-institution series directly comparing weight-loss outcomes in super-obese patients, researchers from the University of Chicago found that a newer operation, the duodenal ...