What about surgery for diabetes treatment? What is diabetes surgery? Diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic disease. It is a disease caused by an absolute or relative lack of insulin in the human body that increases the concentration of glucose in the blood, and glucose is excreted in large amounts from the urine, resulting in symptoms such as excessive drinking, excessive urination, excessive eating, weight loss, dizziness, and weakness, which in turn leads to serious acute complications and various chronic complications throughout the body, eventually leading to disabilities such as blindness, hemiplegia, and amputation, affecting the quality of life and threatening physical health. I heard that diabetes can be treated with surgery, so diabetes is diabetes surgery? Introduction to diabetes surgery: Gastric diversion surgery was first performed in 1885 by Austrian surgeon Theodor
Billroth implemented for the treatment of gastric cancer patients, evolved into a bariatric surgery in the 1950s. In 1995, Pories completed a 14-year clinical observation of 146 obese diabetic patients and found that the attainment rate of diabetes after gastric diversion was 80%. After decades of development and improvement, in March 2011, the International Diabetes Federation issued a statement: It is recommended that early stage of the disease patients with type 2 diabetes be treated with surgery. The Chinese Medical Association Diabetes Branch officially included surgery for diabetes in the Chinese Diabetes Prevention and Control Guidelines in 2011, making gastric diversion surgery a new hope for patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is caused by two factors. First, K cells distributed in the gastrointestinal tract are stimulated by food to secrete insulin resistance factor, which causes insulin resistance in the body. Secondly, islet cells are damaged by insulin resistance factors and die. The reason why gastric diversion surgery can treat diabetes and achieve clinical cure in one go is that the unique feature of gastric diversion surgery is that it changes the physiological flow of food, which is accomplished through the steps of gastric blockage, gastrointestinal anastomosis and enteroenteric anastomosis. After the surgery, the insulin resistance in the patient’s body is eliminated, and the way food flows through the body after the surgery also promotes insulin secretion in the patient’s body, reduces apoptosis and proliferation of islet cells, restores islet function, and cures diabetes. In addition to the normalization of blood sugar, the patient recovered well from a series of accompanying complications. For example, retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic dermatitis, diabetic sexual dysfunction, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc. were gradually cured. The occurrence of serious complications has been eliminated, and the occurrence of disabling and fatal situations has been avoided. Gastric diversion surgery is less traumatic, low risk, fast recovery and no recurrence; most of the patients recovered normal blood glucose and stopped using hypoglycemic drugs and insulin before they were discharged from the hospital after surgery; a small number of patients have a slightly longer recovery time, which mainly depends on the extent of the patient’s preoperative islet function damage. Patients who are treated early will recover more quickly and completely. With the popularization and promotion of diabetes knowledge and the scientific awareness and improvement of the surgery among doctors and patients, it will become more and more common for diabetic patients to receive gastric diversion surgery to treat their diabetes, and more and more diabetic patients will regain their health!