Surgery

Bypass Beats Angioplasty for Patients with Diabetes

Patients with diabetes who undergo bypass surgery to open clogged heart arteries may live longer than their counterparts who chose angioplasty....

Surgery Once Again Wins for Obese Diabetes Patients

Yet another study has found that bariatric surgery is a better diabetes treatment in obese patients than medical therapy, researchers said, confirming results from other recent trials....

Bariatric Surgery Beats Regular Therapy in Obese Diabetes Patients, Independent of Weight Loss

Bariatric surgery performed considerably better than traditional medical therapy in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, independent of weight loss according to findings from two randomized trials published online....

GLP-1 Help to Control Diabetes after Gastric Bypass

Insulin, glucagon-like peptide-1 positively linked in diabetes patients following gastric bypass surgery....

Gastric Bypass Provides More Rapid Weight Loss than Gastric Banding

According to the findings of a case-matched study, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) provides superior, more rapid weight loss than gastric banding (GB) and results in lower long-term complication and comorbidity rates, although it is...

Bariatric Surgery Not a Cure for Diabetes

According to Dimitrios Pournaras, MD as reported in the BMJ, "Bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric banding) leads to complete remission in only about one third of patients with type 2 diabetes, and should be...

Cardovascular Risks Reduced with Weight-loss Surgery

A new study shows that weight-loss surgery clearly cuts the risk of heart attacks, strokes and death from cardiovascular disease and patients with higher insulin levels before surgery experienced the greatest benefits from...

BEWARE: Gastric Bypass Increases Risk for New-Onset Alcohol Abuse

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery is associated with an increased risk of developing new-onset alcohol abuse, according to findings from a study of 340 patients who underwent the procedure....

Rare Surgery Shows More Effective Weight Loss with More Risks

A less common form of obesity surgery may spur more weight loss than its far more popular cousin, gastric bypass, but at the price of greater long-term risks, researchers reported....

Surgeons Pioneer New Ways to Treat Diabetes

Surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center are innovating new ways to treat diabetes using techniques from weight-loss surgery, including experimental procedures to improve blood glucose levels and address...

Stem Cells Show Potential to Aid Diabetic Wound Healing

Transplanting human umbilical cord blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) has been found to "significantly accelerate" wound closure in diabetic mouse models.... 

Postoperative High Blood Sugar Associated with Surgical Site Infection

High blood glucose levels after surgery may be an important risk factor for infection at the surgical site in patients having general surgery, according to a report....

Test Your Knowledge #536: A 56-year-old man with a history of diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis...

A 56-year-old man with a history of diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis with exocrine insufficiency is scheduled for intestinal resection because of colon cancer. He usually takes insulin glargine 30 U at night and insulin lispro at...

New Surgical Procedure for Type 2 Diabetes Shows a 95% Remission

A Brazilian surgeon has developed a new procedure usinging surgical intervention through "Ileal Transposition" (or small intestinal switch) that can effectively control Type 2 diabetes…

Diabetes Cure Closer to Reality

From heart transplant material to cancer therapies, pigs have provided a host of opportunities for humans, Now pigs have come to the rescue once again -- this time for diabetes....

Preoperative Fasting Glucose Level a Predictor of New-Onset Diabetes after Transplantation

Patients with higher fasting plasma glucose levels but within the normoglycemic range before kidney transplantation are at increased risk for developing new-onset diabetes after transplantation, according to recent...

Diabetic Macular Edema Improves with New Teatment

Patients with diabetic macular edema saw more improvement when intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis) was added to photocoagulation laser treatment than with laser alone, according to results of a National Eye Institute-sponsored...

Bariatric Surgery Can Just Mask Diabetes

Bariatric surgery may appear to cure diabetes based on measurements such as fasting plasma glucose and hemoglobin A1c, but postprandial glucose can still be elevated say researchers....

Diabetes Raises Risk of Death by 50% with Cancer Surgery

People with diabetes who undergo cancer surgery are more likely to die in the month following their operations than those who have cancer but no diabetes, according to a study....

Study Explains How Weight-loss Surgery Reverses Type 2 Diabetes

A team of researchers, led by a University of California Davis (UC Davis) veterinary endocrinologist, has shown for the first time that a surgical procedure in rats that is similar to bariatric surgery in humans....

Diabetics with Critical Limb Ischemia at Risk for Foot Amputation, Death

For diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia, the risk of major amputation and death is "considerable," researchers report. Study investigator Dr. Giacomo Clerici stated that, "Reduction in the amputation rate among diabetic patients with...