Surgical treatment of severe forms of metabolic syndrome

The authors analyze the components of the metabolic syndrome in patients with morbid obesity treated at the surgical department. The effects of a modified operation of jejunal-ileal shunt on the components of the metabolic syndrome were shown in 220 patients operated upon at the clinic of Faculty surgery of the Pavlov Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. The indications to the operative treatment of the metabolic syndrome were substantiated on the basis of etiopathogenesis. The estimation of long-term results of the operation of jejunal-ileal shunt in patients with the metabolic syndrome is given.