The bipartition may be better, and not just for super obesity

The excellent work published by Topart et  al. [1] is unique in the world. It studies one, single modification in their routine biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS). Instead of connecting the ileum to the proximal duodenum, he left the duodenum intact and connected it to the gastric antrum, a transit bipartition (TB). Th e TB drains the sleeve into the ileum.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial comment Source Type: research