The Quirón clinic achieves by laparoscopy eliminating diabetes from a patient
The patient, who will receive the medical discharge shortly, underwent an operation for 50 -minute laparoscopy.In addition, it has also been possible to reduce its hypercholesterolemia, obesity and hypertension.
Europa Press.Saragossa
Zaragoza Quirón Hospital has carried out successfully last Tuesday, February 16, a metabolic surgery to a patient to eliminate diabetes.This revolutionary intervention, which is an important advance for all the people suffering from this disease, has been performed by the Head of Service of the Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Unit of Quirón Zaragoza, Jorge Solano.
The patient, a 44 -year -old Zaragoza male, has stopped being treated and medicated for diabetes since yesterday and will receive the medical discharge today, day 18. The intervention for laparoscopy to which he was subjected, and which lasted 50 minutes,He has facilitated the rapid recovery and minimized the patient's discomfort, as reported by Quirón Zaragoza.
The surgery has consisted of making a short circuit between the duodenum and the upper part of the small intestine reducing, thus, the time in which the body absorbs the calories of the food.The duodenum is the first segment of the small intestine and in the operation it has been achieved that the food does not pass through it and the immediate vicinity of the pancreas.
Dr. Solano explained that, "in the duodenum is the origin of the metabolic signal that causes insulin resistance. This signal is possibly exaggerated or evil synchronized in diabetic patients, preventing the correct regulation of insulin and levels of insulin andBlood glucose. "
In addition, with this surgery it has also been possible to eliminate in the patient its hypercholesterolemia (cholesterol), reduce obesity and arterial hypertension.
Metabolic intervention to eliminate diabetes, is only indicated in patients, such as intervened, with the following characteristics: people with diabetes type 2 -90% of diabetes -poorly controlled, which require a lot of insulin or are about to need it, withAn age between 18 and 60 years, with the existence of pancreatic reserve and with a diabetes of less than 10 years of evolution.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism, the process that converts the food we eat into energy.Insulin is the most important factor in this process.During digestion foods are broken down to create glucose, the largest fuel source for the body.This glucose passes to the blood, where insulin allows you to enter the cells.
There are two main types of diabetes.Type 1, dependent on insulin, is sometimes called youth diabetes, because it usually begins during childhood, although it can also occur in adults.As the body does not produce insulin, these people must inject insulin to live.Less than 10 percent of those affected by diabetes suffer from type 1.
In type 2, which arises in adults, the body does produce insulin, but, either does not produce enough, or cannot take advantage of what it produces, so insulin cannot escort glucose inside the cells.
In front of type 1 diabetes, which appears with marked symptoms and needs insulin from the beginning, type 2 diabetes affects 90 percent of diabetics and is more associated with family history and western life habits.
According to Dr. Jorge Solano, "Diabetes is a disease with great gastrointestinal component, derived from problems with gastrointestinal hormones that influence insulin production and action, so it can be treated with metabolic surgery."
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