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What is a biliopancreatic diversion, and do I qualify for it?
This video explains the biliopancreatic diversion surgery, similar to duodenal switch surgery, and rarely conducted.
It is classified as an extreme type of weight loss surgery, causing malabsorption and unpleasant nutritional complications.
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What is a biliopancreatic diversion and do I qualify for it? These are very extreme forms like the duodenal suite. This is a very extreme form of bariatric surgery which is very very rarely done in the UK. So it involves, it is similar to a gastric bypass but much more, let's call it extreme, in terms of the bypass that it causes. So in the majority of people, it causes malabsorption, which means that when they eat, they lose a lot of calories in the stool, but that also means that they have diarrhea, which is rather unpleasant. Therefore, even though it is by far the most effective treatment for weight loss and diabetes, the nutritional complications after the biliopancreatic diversion and make it an operation which is only very, very rarely conducted.
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