PURPOSE: The mechanism by which bariatric surgery facilitates diabetic control is still unknown. Duodenojejunal bypass supports the foregut theory; however, its efficacy when used alone is not yet established. METHODS: During the period from January 2008 to December 2009, patients who underwent laparoscopic duodenojejunal bypass (LDJB) or laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with or without morbid obesity were included. Patients who had a follow-up for less than 3 years were excluded. Patient baseline characteristics, change of body weight, body mass index (BMI), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and diabetic treatments were analyzed. RESULTS: In total, 8 LDJB and 20 LRYGB patients were analyzed. The LDJB group had more number of male patients than the LRYGB group (LDJB 75% vs. LRYGB 30%, P = 0.030). Baseline BMI in the LRYGB group was higher than in the LDJB group (LDJB 27.0 ± 2.5 vs. LRYGB 32.6 ± 3.4, P < 0.001). Age, DM duration, baseline HbA1c, and C-peptide levels were similar. Longer operation time was needed to perform LDJB (LDJB 367.5 ± 120.2 vs. LRYGB 232.9 ± 41.1, P < 0.001), but no differences were observed in the hospital stay and complication rate between the 2 groups. At the third year of follow-up, the T2DM remission rate was observed in 40% of patients in the LRYGB group and 12.5% of patients in the LDJB group. CONCLUSION: LDJB is not an effective method for controlling T2DM compared with LRYGB. Foregut theory may not be the main mechanism of diabetic control during bariatric surgery.
Bariatric Surgery ; Body Mass Index ; Body Weight ; C-Peptide ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gastric Bypass* ; Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated ; Humans ; Laparoscopy ; Length of Stay ; Male ; Methods ; Obesity, Morbid

PURPOSE: Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) are the most effective intervention and cure in achieving sustained weight loss in the morbidly obese with co-morbities, especially in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Currently, there are few data in the literature presenting early diabetic outcomes between the 2 major bariatric surgeries in Korea. The aim of this study is to observe weight loss, improvement of type 2 DM after LRYGB and LAGB. METHODS: 33 retrospective data were obtained from diabetic subjects undergoing LRYGB (n=53) and LAGB (n=77). These measurements included age, sex, body mass index (BMI), pre-operative diabetic duration, post-operative diabetic at follow-up visit after surgery. Paired t-test, and SPSS12.0 were used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: 33 morbidly obese patients with type 2 DM who had both procedures complain of general weakness. Most patients were taking oral medications or insulin and tired of them. Pre and post-op 12 months of percent of excess weight loss (%EWL), fetal bovine serum (FBS), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1C) presented at 0%, 185.6 mg/dl, 8.7% and 70.6%, 123.4 mg/dl, 6.6% in patients who had LRYGB (P<0.05). Pre and post-op 12 months of %EWL, FBS, HbA1C presented at 0%, 180.6 mg/dl, 8.4% and 32.8%, 136.5 mg/dl, 6.8% in patients who had LAGB (P<0.05). Rate of discontinuance or decreasing for treatment of type 2 DM after surgery showed 94% for LRYGB versus 80% for LAGB, and unchanged rates were 6% versus 20%, respectively. CONCLUSION: This study showed LRYGB and LAGB are quite satisfactory and promising bariatric procedures with significant weight loss and improvement of type 2 DM in Koreans. LRYGB is significantly associated with more weight loss, more diabetic outcome than LAGB. Clinical experiences in Korea with both procedures are limited and a larger number of cases are need, but the recent data shows promising results that are comparable to the international experience.
Bariatric Surgery ; Body Mass Index ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gastric Bypass ; Hemoglobins ; Humans ; Insulin ; Korea ; Retrospective Studies ; Weight Loss

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Diagnostic or thepapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the mainstream for the pancreaticobiliary disease. However, the ERCP related complications are serious and sometimes fatal to the patients. We have reviewed our experiences of the operative management for the ERCP injury. METHODS: Medical records of 13 patients who underwent laparotomic surgical intervention for various ERCP injuries from March 1996 to August 2002 at Department of Surgery, the Catholic University of Korea were reviewed. RESULTS: The age range of the patients was from 28 to 85 years. There were 5 females and 8 males. 6 patients showed the duodenal perforations and 4 patients suffered from bleedings around the ampulla of Vater. One of the 4 bleeding patients had huge expanding submucosal hematomas throughout the entire duodenum. We found massive retroperitoneal extraluminal air density in one patient but we could not find any leakage of the contrast media during the upper gastrointestinal series, however, this patient complained aggravated peritoneal irritation sign, so we explored the abdomen. Most of the patients had free abdominal or retroperitoneal air shadows (n=7) on plain chest or abdominal X-ray. We diagnosed the uncontrolled bleeding from the sphincterotomy site using the gastroduodenal fiberscopes in 3 patients. On the computed tomogaphic images, one patient showed a huge duodenal hematoma, another one had a retroperitoneal fluid collection and another one revealed a retroperitoneal air shadow. One patient showed aggravated pancreatitis on the serial CT scan and finally the patient developed a hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis, then we explored the abdomen and tried peripancreatic drainage but we lost the patient in 19 postoperative day due to sepsis. The other 12 patients survived by the various surgical procedures. For the 6 patients, we performed duodenotomic sphincteroplasty, tube duodenostomy and biliary drainage with T-tube. One patient survived with Whipple's procedure, one patient improved by the pyloric exclusion and one patient cured with the duodenal diverticulization. Other procedures were primary repair of the duodenum, transduodenal sphincteroplasty and just cholecystectomy and T-tube choledochostomy. CONCLUSION: There was tendency to uneventful improvement of patients by the early detection and urgent laparotomic surgical intervention of the ERCP complication.
Abdomen ; Ampulla of Vater ; Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde* ; Cholecystectomy ; Choledochostomy ; Contrast Media ; Drainage ; Duodenostomy ; Duodenum ; Female ; Hematoma ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Medical Records ; Pancreatitis ; Sepsis ; Sphincterotomy, Transhepatic ; Thorax ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed