Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Samuel Klein, MD, of the Center for Human Nutrition and the Atkins Center of Excellence in Obesity Medicine at ...

Center for Weight Loss Surgery explains the differences between duodenal switch and gastric sleeve surgeries for weight loss.

May 11, 2009 — Bariatric surgery resolves type 2 diabetes mellitus in at least three quarters of obese patients within weeks of surgery, but a surgical alternative for the treatment of type 2 diabetes ...

Researchers report that a newer operation, the duodenal switch, produced substantially better weight loss in super-obese patients (BMI greater than 50) than gastric bypass, the standard operation.

Patients who underwent biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch surgery lost more weight, experienced greater decreases in total and LDL cholesterol and had better body composition when compared ...

As some of you know, I’ve been looking into different weight loss techniques as of late. I’m currently on the Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery program by Rena Greenberg, which I’ll be posting a halfway ...

September 19, 2012 — The duodenal switch (DS) may be a better bariatric surgical procedure than the gold standard gastric bypass (GB) for achieving weight loss and control of coexisting conditions, ...

A study comparing bariatric surgical procedures for obesity suggests that even though undergoing the less commonly used biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch (DS) may be associated with higher ...

A new study on the long-term benefits of gastric bypass surgery, the most commonly performed weight-loss surgery in the U.S., finds that the procedure results in sustained weight loss in the morbidly ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

A randomized, parallel-group trial has demonstrated that duodenal switch induces greater weight loss than gastric bypass in patients who are severely obese. Gastric bypass is considered the gold ...