Role of surgery in the management of the metabolic syndrome | ||||
Ain Shams Journal of Surgery | ||||
Editorial, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2009, Page 211-214 PDF (38.68 K) | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/asjs.2009.177135 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Tamer Abd El Baki* 1; Alaa Abbass Sabry2; Hany Mohamed El-Barbary3 | ||||
1M.B., B.CH | ||||
2Professor of General Surgery Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University | ||||
3Lecturer of General Surgery Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The Metabolic Syndrome is a complicated condition in which several aspects of normal metabolism are affected. it was found that bariatric surgery especially gastric bypass, biliopancertic diversion, vertical band gastroplasty is associated with significant effects on the metabolic aspect of the syndrome specially diabetes. clinical trials including patients with BMI from 30-35 (non obese patients) found that components metabolic syndrome markedly improve with surgical treatment, especially diabetes. Conclusion: The future studies hopes that bariatric surgical procedures will be final solution for metabolic syndrome for both obese and non obese patient | ||||
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