Metabolic surgery has established itself in Marbella Quirón Hospital as the most effective surgical treatment for patients with mild obesity and severe obesity suffering from type II diabetes mellitus.Prestigious studies, such as those published in New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate that surgical treatment gives better solutions than medical and dietary treatment in diabetes control.
The Marbella Quirón Hospital has a obesity and metabolic surgery unit that applies surgical techniques that help solve this disease up to 85% of cases
In this sense, Dr. Rafael Ruiz Orellana, Head of General Surgery Service and the Digestive and Responsible System of the Unit states: «The era of metabolic surgery has begun by observing that many diabetic patients quickly improve their blood glucose levelsafter undergoing an obesity intervention ».
While restrictive techniques such as tubular gastrectomy, get a healing of diabetes in 40-60% of patients, mixed and juggling, such as gastric bypass, increase recovery levels to 70-85%.With these treatments a promising path is open for the definitive solution of this chronic disease.