Metabolic Surgery

Metabolic Surgery is a type of Laparoscopic Surgery involving in reducing the size of stomach or bypassing the section of stomach and small intestine in order to treatment metabolic diseases such as Diabetes type II.

Dr Randeep Wadhawan has so far performed hundreds of such procedure successfully using laparoscopic technique which is highly customized as per the patient need to for the surgical treatment of Diabetes Type II.

These are the following requirements before planning for Metabolic Surgery for Diabetes Type II :

• Through evaluation of the patient
• Patient’s history  & duration of Diabetes.
• Whether Patient is on Oral Medication or Insulin to control diabetes
• Preoperative weight of the patient.

The benefit of Metabolic Surgery is to improve the blood glucose levels which in results helping in treating Type 2 Diabetes in most of the patients and Dr Randeep’s patients has experiences are extremely satisfactorily.

Approx. 90 percent of all diabetics in the word are type 2 diabetics & it is closely linked to obesity. The surgical treatment of type II diabetes was raised for the first time by the Walter Pories’ with the objective to reduce and control weight through altering energy balance primarily by reducing food intake and modifying the physiological changes that drive weight regain. Later it was found to have benefits independent of weight loss. There are metabolic benefits, pertaining with stmulation of certain hormones like PYY, GLP1 which are incretins and lead to an increase in the levels of Insulin & decrease in the Insulin resistance hence leading to control of blood sugar in Type II Diabetics.This has a rapid and sustained improvement in blood glucose levels within days of tailored Metabolic Surgery, before even achieving significant weight loss.

Dr Randeep Wadhawan is one of first few Laparoscopic Surgeon to adopt & gained expertise in Metabolic Surgery for Type 2 diabetes in India & has credited with more than 1000 Metabolic Surgeries in Delhi. He has successfully treated Metabolic Syndrome, which includes obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension through surgical methods and is calledMetabolic Surgery. The combined conditions of Metabolic Syndrome such as, obesity, type II diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol metabolism malfunction, are life threatening along with serious organ failure.