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Long-Term Results of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Morbidly Obese Type 1 Diabetes Patients

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Abstract

Background

Long-term effects of bariatric surgery in morbidly obese type 1 patients are unknown. Five to eight-year experience in the case series of type 1 diabetes subjects is presented.

Methods

Three poorly controlled type 1 diabetes patients, aged 19, 23, and 28 underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.

Results

Their maximum body weight reduction noted during the follow-up was between 27% and 31% of baseline body weight, insulin requirement decreased from 0.6–0.95 to 0.3–0.83 IU/kg, and absolute reduction in HbA1c was 3–4%. Significant improvement in blood pressure, plasma lipid profile, and microalbuminuria was noted.

Conclusions

RYGB surgery in morbidly obese type 1 diabetes patients leads to a significant and maintained weight loss and results in remarkable improvement in blood glucose control and concomitant disorders. Bariatric surgery should be recommended to significantly obese type 1 diabetes patients as a means of reduction of vascular complications risk.

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  1. Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Department, Barlicki University Hospital No 1, Kopcinskiego 22, 90-153, Lodz, Poland

    Leszek Czupryniak, Maciej Pawłowski & Jerzy Loba

  2. General and Transplant Surgery Department, Barlicki University Hospital No 1, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

    Marcin Wiszniewski, Dariusz Szymański & Janusz Strzelczyk

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Czupryniak, L., Wiszniewski, M., Szymański, D. et al. Long-Term Results of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Morbidly Obese Type 1 Diabetes Patients. OBES SURG 20, 506–508 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-010-0074-6

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