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Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion

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Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

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This chapter is a very good occasion to clarify a concept which still today seems not to have been understood by a large part of the bariatric surgeons: biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) is not a particular operation, it is a mechanism of action, essentially consisting of delaying the meeting between food and biliopancreatic juices with the aim of reducing digestion, and thus intestinal absorption of the high-caloric nutrients which need to be digested for being absorbed. The mechanism itself does not necessarily provoke the obtainment of the goal, unless the time of contact between food and biliopancreatic secretions is insufficient to cause a complete digestion-absorption.

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Scopinaro, N. (2015). Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion. In: Lucchese, M., Scopinaro, N. (eds) Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15356-8_20

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