Surgeons of the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid have successfully carried out a combined surgery surgery in a laparoscopic route in which two thirds of the pancreas have removed and performed a gastric bypass to cure at the same time a type 2 diabetes and an invalidating pancreatic diseaseTo the same patient.
The patient, a 40 -year -old man, needed to apply 50 doses of insulin per day and had permanent damage of the pancreas and his function, originated by the pancreatitis he had suffered for twenty years.
The intervention, the first of this type that takes place in Spain, has lasted five hours and has managed to solve "two problems in the same intervention," said the head of the Obesity Surgery Unit and Diabetes of the Ruber International Hospital, CarlosBallesta López, who also directs the Ballesta Laparoscopic Center (CLB).
To do this, they have divided the pancreas with special machines without damaging any structure to cut and remove the sick part but, like the head of the pancreas is healthy, it will continue to segregate insulin, according to this expert.
They have then made a modification of the digestive tract of food "to heal diabetes through a 'intestinal by-pass".The patient was already in the plant two hours after the intervention and this Monday will be discharged.
Ballesta accumulates more than 30 years of experience in general and digestive surgery in which he has performed more than 30,000 surgeries that accredit him as a reference in this field by the International Federation of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (IFSO), according to the RuberIn a statement, which in fact assures that all the centers that perform this surgery do it according to the technique he implemented.