Duodenal Switch Surgery

One of the most successful weight loss surgeries available today started existence as a remedy for people whose esophagus and stomach were continuously burnt by bile. This procedure would eventually be turned into a weight loss surgery in 1988 when it was first combined with a biliopancreatic diversion. The duodenal switch surgery procedure has not only the highest success rate of any weight loss surgery but it is one of the few in which it is next to impossible for the patient to gain that weight back.

While most weight loss procedures achieve their results by bypassing the stomach in which a small pouch is made and then connected to the small intestines, the biliopancreatic diversion with a duodenal switch keeps the stomach in place. In order to achieve the smaller space needed for the surgery to be a success, the stomach is bisected and roughly 85% of it is completely removed while at the same leaving the pyloric valve intact to do its job. The small intestines are then cut and rerouted making not only a smaller pathway in which to digest the food but also to loop the bile away from the food resulting in less absorption than any other weight loss surgery.

The duodenal switch weight loss surgery is performed using a laparoscope and it is considered to be a very complex procedure in which there are very few surgeons capable of performing the procedure in the world.

A person who undergoes a duodenal switch surgery can expect to loose between 29% and 37% of their pre surgery weight during the first 3 months alone. Following the first three months the patient should expect to have lost between 51% and 55% of their pre surgery weight by month 6 and 80% to 91% of that weight by the end of their second year.

Furthermore the duodenal switch offers a 97% success rate for resolving diabetes and 96% success at resolving high cholesterol. 90% of all patients who have undergone a duodenal switch procedure have seen their sleep apnea disappear. You have roughly a 85% chance of ridding yourself of hypertension as well as 60% of all duodenal switch patients noticed their asthma disappeared. The duodenal switch has also been recorded at resolving almost 47% of arthritis issues.