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Diabetes can be cured? (This surgery possibly can)
A surgery that aims to tackle diabetes at its core.
Dr. Shreya Jani
April 23, 2024
Hey there,
You know how so many people these days seem to be tormented by type 2 diabetes? Well, I recently discovered something intriguing. The diabetes community is talking a lot about this procedure, known as ileal interposition surgery.
This procedure, which was initially intended to assist patients lose weight, has an unexpected side benefit: it's also rather good at managing blood sugar levels!
It addresses health conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol, in contrast to typical obesity operations.
Following surgery, most patients are able to stop taking their blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetic medications.
In most cases, the technique results in the termination of medication because it improves medicine sensitivity by raising hormone levels. Ileal interposition surgery is classified as either non-diverted or diverted.
The Shift in Diabetes Management!
Dysregulated glucose metabolism is the hallmark of diabetes mellitus, a condition that has a substantial impact on people's lives and healthcare systems across the globe.
Even with improvements in pharmaceutical and lifestyle therapies, many patients still have difficulty maintaining consistent glycemic control, which can result in severely incapacitating consequences.
Ileal interposition surgery has emerged as a potentially effective treatment option for diabetes type 2, and the investigation of surgical therapies for the condition has accelerated in recent years.
Ileal Interposition comes under types of bariatric surgeries. A frequent metabolic disease that poses a risk to public health is type 2 diabetes.
T2DM affects about 462 million people worldwide, or 6.28% of the total population.
Long-term hyperglycemia usually results in damage to the kidneys, heart, nerve system, retinas, and blood vessels, among other end organs.
The Ileal Interposition Surgery
The procedure known as "ileal interposition" involves a long segment of the small bowel's ileum being cut and reconnected extremely near to the stomach in order to control type-2 diabetes.
In order to promote higher secretion of the gut hormone Incretin (GLP-1), undigested food now first enters the ileum.
If sufficient beta cell mass is still present in the pancreas, this then stimulates the pancreatic beta cells to secrete more insulin. Long-term beta cell mass is raised by persistently elevated GLP-1 release.
To improve glucose metabolism, ileal interposition surgery modifies the gastrointestinal tract's morphological and physiological environment.