Duodenal Switch

Gravitas surgeons were the first in the UK to carry out this operation and have extensive experience in DS surgery and aftercare.

Even though the DS is technically more complex than the band and gastric bypass, it is still performed with keyhole surgery by our expert teams.

The DS shares some features in common with the gastric bypass, in that both operations rely on surgically separating food from the digestive juices, thereby preventing calorie absorption. The major difference is that the DS patient is left with a much shorter length of bowel with which to absorb their food. Most of the weight loss after a DS is thought to be due to reduced calorie absorption.

The great advantage of this approach is that excellent, reliable weight loss can be achieved without the need to reduce stomach (and thus portion) size dramatically.

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