Doctors at Asian Bariatrics, a chain of bariatric hospitals, have advocated a pain-free surgery called ‘Ileal interposition, sleeve with loop bipartition’ to effectively address the twin problems of obesity and diabetes.
No more pills
Surendra Ugale, a bariatric surgeon and Srinivasa Rao Surapaneni, an aesthetic plastic surgeon, said here on Saturday that several patients who opted for this surgery with a limited hospital stay of two days benefited and they no longer needed to consume pills to control their blood sugar levels.
Diabetes and obesity have been rising to epidemic levels, particularly among youth, in the country and about 80 % of diabetics were obese. Obesity in turn could lead to cardiovascular disease, thyroid, diabetes, sleep apnea etc., Dr. Ugale said.
He said an early surgical treatment could return the life of diabetic patients to normalcy and help reduce other complications.
Ileal interposition, sleeve with loop bipartition are two surgeries for diabetes. Ileal interposition is a kind of exchange of initial and final parts of the small intestine for type two diabetes. He said that the insulin resistance hormones were excreted from the initial parts of the digestive system and the insulin sensitivity hormone called GLP-1 was released from the L cells in the last part of the intestine.
Dr. Ugale said GLP-1 was a hormone that increased the effects of insulin and stimulated insulin production by the pancreas.
The goal of the procedure was to leave the resistance hormones aside and increase the sensitivity hormones.
He said diabetics with or without obesity could now get rid of increased sugar levels with a single surgery.
