Laparoscopic IIeal Interposition can cure Type-2 diabetes: Expert

HYDERABAD: Well known Brazilian surgeon Dr Aureo Ludovico De Paula today claimed that Laparoscopic IIeal Interposition, a pioneering diabetic surgery, will cure Type-2 Diabetes. Addressing a press conference here, Dr Aureo, who is conducting laparoscopic surgeries for the past nine years, said the laparoscopic operation was proving very helpful in controlling diabetes without insulin, arresting the metaboilic syndrome of body organ deterioration and thus avoiding future diabetic complications. While explaining the surgery, Dr Aureo, who was in the city to participate in International Workshop on Type-2 diabetes), said a long segment of ilium (ending portion of small intestine) is shifted to the upper small intestinal area, where food particles would reach immediately after the meal. ‘’This causes an immediate secretion of a ‘good ‘ hormone’ GLP-1, which acts on the B-cells of pancreas to secrete Insulin, to immediately control blood sugar,’’ he stated. If there was no intake of food, this would not happen, so there was no danger of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), he informed. The operation is called as IIeal Interposition (small intestinal switch) and can be done for persons of normal weight also and upper age limit for the operation was 70 but depend on the healthy body, the surgeon said. The patient can stop all medicines within six months, at times even two to four weeks after the surgery, Dr Aureo, who is the world pioneer of procedure- IIeal Transposition Surgery, said. City Kirloskar Hospital Managing Director Dr Surendra Ugale, who is the fi rst Indian surgeon to have had the privilege of being trained by the Brazil Surgeon, said the cost of operation would be around Rs four Lakh in India. The fi rst surgery in India was performed in February 2008 at Kriloskar Hospital on a 56-year-old woman and since then 75 such surgeries had been performed successfully, Dr Ugale claimed.