diabetes
Pre-op Optimization Lowers HbA1c Levels In Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Patients
New research has found that preoperative optimization protocols before elective abdominal wall reconstruction ...
JULY 2, 2025
Bariatric Surgery Highly Effective for Preventing Prediabetes To Diabetes Conversion
Bariatric surgery dramatically decreases the conversion from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to ...
DECEMBER 30, 2024
GLP-1 Agents May Drive Surgery Volume, Experts Predict
With the rising popularity of glucagon-like peptide-1 agents, many metabolic bariatric surgery programs across the ...
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The Surgeons’ Lounge: Treating Diabetic Neuropathy
An interview with A. Lee Dellon, MD, a professor of plastic surgery and neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, ...
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Gastric Bypass Brings Durable Long-Term Weight Loss, Diabetes Remission
A study of long-term outcomes following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reported successful weight loss and diabetes ...
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Bariatric Surgery More Renoprotective Than Weight-Loss Meds
In patients with obesity who also have type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, surgery is a better ...
AUGUST 29, 2024
Gastric Bypass Maintains Diabetes Remission, Even With Weight Regain
Patients who undergo gastric bypass often have remission of type 2 diabetes five years after the operation, even ...
MARCH 20, 2024
Predicting Bleeding and Re-Bleeding in the High-Risk Patient
Adequate identification of a high-risk patient type is necessary to estimate the disruptive bleeding risks. Optimal ...
JUNE 1, 2021
Diabetes and the Surgeon
Why should a surgeon and the discipline of surgery care about diabetes? For one thing, today we are faced with an ...
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Endoscopic Approaches Emerging For Diabetes
Las Vegas—A treatment gap exists in diabetes care, and millions of Americans with poorly controlled diabetes ...
JUNE 15, 2016
Bariatric Surgery Safe, Effective for Lower-BMI Patients With Diabetes
Los Angeles—It’s been a decades-long effort to have bariatric surgery accepted as a safe, effective ...
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Frederick Banting: Surgeon Who Won Nobel for Discovery of Insulin
While preparing a lecture on the pancreas on Oct. 30, 1920, Frederick Banting, MD, had an epiphany. He believed ...
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
