India has been declared the ‘diabetic capital’ of the world and it is estimated that by the year 2025, it will be home to more than 80 million diabetics with most of them being type 2 diabetics. A laparoscopic operation called Ileal Transposition Operation was devised in order to control diabetes and avoid future diabetic complications.

1. Ileal Transposition

2. Ileal Transposition
Diabetes mellitus is an epidemic that is on the rise around the world without any cure. It is
associated with a number of short and long-term complications resulting in devastating
illnesses and reduced life expectancy. Retinopathy is a major cause of morbidity in patients
with diabetes mellitus. For example, the incidence of blindness is 25 times higher in patients
with diabetes than in non-diabetics.
Eighty per cent of patients with diabetes mellitus 2 are obese or overweight. Weight
reduction is one of the most efficient ways to get any amount of control over this illness.
However, it is difficult to maintain normal blood sugar levels with just the conventional
treatments comprising of diet, exercise, oral tablets and insulin. On the other hand,
impressive improvement in sugar levels in diabetics undergoing bariatric and metabolic
surgery has stimulated interest in surgery as a potential cure for type 2 diabetes.
Research shows that there are intestinal hormones that have a striking effect on the
pancreas and insulin secretion, especially in response to food intake. Thus, a laparoscopic
operation called Ileal Transposition Operation was devised in order to control diabetes and
avoid future diabetic complications. Visit your nearest Apollo clinics centre to know more
about the surgery performed, especially at Nova Super Speciality Hospitals.
India has been declared the ‘diabetic capital’ of the world and it is estimated that by the
year 2025, it will be home to more than 80 million diabetics with most of them being type 2
diabetics. It is therefore important to spread awareness about the availability of ileal
transposition procedure as a cure for diabetes. The procedure should be able to do a lot of
good for diabetics, especially in India.
This operation is ideal for surgical cure of diabetes in non-morbidly obese patients also as
there is no malabsorption leading to weight loss. Patients can stop all medicines within a
few months, at times even within two to four weeks post surgery. Drastic improvements can
be seen in their triglycerides, cholesterol levels, kidney function and leg pains proving that it
is a successful metabolic surgery. As it is a day surgery, the patients can even leave the same
day once the surgery is done without any problems.
Since there is no loss of intestinal length and no diversion of food, there are no long-term
side-effects and no nutritional deficiency. The only lifestyle change required is that patients
need to consume smaller portions of food at a time to enjoy a disease-free, longer and
healthier life.
This metabolic surgery, when combined with sleeve gastrectomy, plays an important role in
the treatment of diabetes mellitus 2 in non-morbidly obese patients. This procedure could
help patients suffering from type 2 diabetes who are facing serious life-threatening
complications.

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