BACKGROUND: The type 2 diabetes mellitus is very frequent among morbid obese patients. It has already been proven that the gastric bypass surgery may cures diabetes mellitus. There are few related studies to sleeve gastroplasty and diabetes. However, promising results exist. AIM: To analyse the glicemic results in patients submmitted to sleeve gastroplasty. METHODS: A 11 months prospective study on 15 patients was dome measuring their glycemic levels pre and postoperatively. The basic inclusion criteria was body mass index (BMI) between 35 and 40 kg/m². All patients were operated by sleeve gastroplasty. RESULTS: All 15 patients lowered their glycemic level on their imidiate postoperative period and some achieved normal levels. CONCLUSIONS: The sleeve gastroplasty cures diabetes by lowering the plasma glucose and have a long lasting weight loss.
Gastrectomy; Diabetes mellitus; Obesity, morbid
