Long-term results of conversion of roux-en-y gastric bypass to biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass represents historically an important step forward in bariatric surgery, offering an effective treatment for obesity and its many related comorbidities.1 This operation provides a safe, broadly accepted, and technically reproducible technique with clinically outcomes that, to a large extent, mark the bar by which we compare most other bariatric and metabolic treatments.2 The limitations of the procedure are well documented. The RYGB design presents many technical and physiologic challenges.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research