Duodenal Switch Surgery

Weight loss surgery is popular and effective way of losing weight especially for people who fail to lose weight with diet, exercise or supplements. Duodenal switch surgery also known as Biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch is proved to be an effective form of surgery especially for severely obese people. The procedure include both restrictive and malabsorptive component for promoting weight. First, it restricts the amount of food intake by creating a small pouch and second it reduces the amount of calories absorbed by the body from the food you eat. Let’s have a look on duodenal switch success stories and how it is advantageous than other form of surgery.

The main advantage of duodenal switch surgery is its effectiveness especially for the patient with BMI index of 40 or greater. A survey conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) found that patient undergone BDP-DS surgery lost an average of 70.1% of their excess body weight. Duodenal switch success stories of a couple indicate how effective this surgery is. After having duodenal switch surgery, couple loses 249 pounds and along with improvement in cholesterol and high blood pressure. Beside that couple also admitted that following surgery, their life has been drastically improved. They are now able to engage in activities like riding, hiking, playing basketball with their children.

Other duodenal switch success stories of a person with initial weight of 318 pounds and crippling arthritis and asthma succeed to lose up to 136 pounds after surgery also symptoms of arthritis and asthma disappear completely.

If you compare the duodenal switch surgery success stories with other weight loss surgery options, you will notice that ds patients have less chance of stomach ulcers than gastric bypass patients. Another advantage of duodenal switch surgery is that in this procedure the pylorus is remain intact to the stomach which reduces the chance of dumping syndrome which is perhaps the most common complication with any other weight loss surgery.

Duodenal switch surgery provides long-term weight loss results with rapid improvement in co-morbidities like sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type-2 diabetes.