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After having undergone a biliopancreatic diversion there are several postoperative things that any patient should be aware of. For starters all patients of a biliopancreatic surgery should expect a stay in the hospital for observation. The length of this stay can vary depending on whether you have undergone the procedure by the means of a laparoscopic approach or not. If the surgery was performed using a laparoscope then as a patient you may only have to stay in the hospital for observation for a period of 2 or three days. On the other hand you may have to stay in the hospital following your biliopancreatic diversion for up to a week for observation. The good news is that most patients can return to their normal daily activities by the end of their first month. During this first month after having undergone a biliopancreatic diversion you will also be scheduled for your first check up which should fall around week three. Then for the next year you can expect another check up every 3 months until the second year in which all patients will generally move to a yearly check up schedule.
Although it is a very rare occasion due to the fact that the surgeon has removed only a portion of your stomach leaving the nerves and pyloric valve intact there may still be the slight chance of having the dreaded dumping syndrome but this is a rare complication associated with the biliopancreatic surgery.
The usual biliopancreatic diversion patient can expect to loose up to 91% of their preoperative weight by the end of the second year and in almost all cases the patients have kept that weight off due to the duodenal switch procedure as compared to the gastric bypass.
There may also be the possibility of other early and long term risks and complications associated with the biliopancreatic diversion procedure but the good news is that the chances of these risks occurring are less than 2% of all patients. This is not intended as a means to sugar coat the procedure as it is still considered a major surgical procedure and you should in no way consider it a miracle cure for morbid obesity. |
