Talk:Duodenal switch surgery

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Effective? My understanding is that this kind of surgery is not necessarily effective in the long term. I just read The Hungry Gene, which states that bariatric patients often regain weight as they adapt to post-surgical dietary restrictions. FreplySpang (talk) 06:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

This is an inaccurate entry and it should be removed. The text is about biliopancreatic diversion and not duodenal switch surgery. (There's a difference) As a reference, the website of a bariatric surgery program is a poor choice, since it is a potentially biased source. To the previous poster: "Bariatric patients" is not an accurate term since there are several different bariatric surgeries with different features. Duodenal switch is emerging as the most effective operation over the long-term. It has been called "the gold standard." This is what Hess and Hess concluded in Obesity Surgery 2005 Mar;15(3):408-16 "The BPD/DS, if properly performed, has the best long-term weight loss of any bariatric operation. It is easy to reverse or revise, has the least marginal ulcers, cures the highest percentage of co-morbidities, has the least failures, and permits normal although smaller meals."

July 30, 2006: As a three years out duodenal switch patient with a PhD in medical biochemistry and molecular biology, as well as a law degree, I feel qualified to have added modified commentary to some of the inaccurate original and inaccurate statements in this entry (without deleting them). As with any surgery, you should do your own due diligence and learn about ALL surgeries before making your choice (and, by the way, not accepting the choice of the surgeon closest to your house or the one your insurance company sends you to -- a surgeon who can't do a DS will never recommend one for you). The DS is, in my opinion, the best bariatric surgery for the majority of patients, but is not well known and MUCH misinformation about it is spread on the internet and in surgical seminars given by non-DS surgeons. The wild exaggerations about diarrhea and uncontrollable gas, as well as malnutrition are just that -- exaggerations. For more information, please read the research and speak to actual DS patients at, for example, www.duodenalswitch.com.