Flash! New Marceal Article on DS

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Just found out Marceau published a new article. Here is the info that

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Surg Clin North Am 2001 Oct;81(5):1113-27 Related Articles, Books,

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Malabsorptive obesity surgery.

Marceau P, Hould FS, Lebel S, Marceau S, Biron S.

Department of General Surgery, Laval Hospital, Laval University,

Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. picard.marceau@...

Biliopancreatic diversion is the only valuable surgical approach for

changing intestinal absorption. It is efficient in producing

appropriate permanent weight loss and has a considerable

psychological advantage because it does not impose abnormal food

restriction. It not only decreases caloric absorption, but it also

directly improves insulin and lipid metabolism. The ideal technique

for the construction of BPD is not yet established, but our current

preference is for the duodenal switch type. BPD must be seen as a

means to change an intolerable and untreatable disease to a tolerable

and treatable one, with substantial improvement in quality of life.

PMID: 11589248 [PubMed - in process]