Re: Flash! New Marceal Article on DS

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Thank you very much for posting this Chris. I will

take this to my insurance company!

Patti

--- chull1@... wrote:

> Hi Everyone,

>

> Just found out Marceau published a new article. Here

> is the info that

> I have

>

> Hull

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

> Articles, Books,

> LinkOut

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> Malabsorptive obesity surgery.

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

>

> Department of General Surgery, Laval Hospital, Laval

> University,

> Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada.

> picard.marceau@...

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> 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]

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