Pregnancy in formerly type 2 diabetes obese women following biliopancreatic diversion for obesity.
BACKGROUND
This study describes the pregnancy of previously obese women with type 2 diabetic who reduced body weight and normalized serum glucose level following biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) for obesity.


METHODS
A subset of ten women who had type 2 diabetes prior to BPD and who developed pregnancy after the operation was retrospectively identified.


RESULTS
All pregnancies were completely normal, and serum glucose levels remained within the physiological range throughout all the pregnancy. These post-diabetic women delivered 13 infants in good health with a normal birth weight and no case of macrosomia.


CONCLUSIONS
These data are a clinical confirmation of the post-BPD improvement of beta-cell response to increased functional demand in obese patients with preoperative type 2 diabetes.
Adami
Gian Franco
GF
Dipartimento di Discipline Chirurgiche, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy. adami@unige.it
Murelli
Federica
F
Briatore
Lucia
L
Scopinaro
Nicola
N
D000328:Adult; D015904:Biliopancreatic Diversion; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015431:Weight Loss; D055815:Young Adult
D001786:Blood Glucose