New treatment for diabetes

New treatment for diabetes

A new clinical trial to slow down the progress of type 2 diabetes. Outpatient surgery can be performed in the early stages of diagnosis and delay the need for insulin injections.

Serious health complications

Insulin hormone helps to treat glucose, but people with type 2 diabetes, prolonged high blood sugar levels can lead to more serious health complications.

Avoid insulin injection therapy

In the early stages of the disease, many patients can control and cope by changing lifestyle and diet, or oral medications, but ultimately often evolve to the stage where insulin needs to be injected regularly.

Twelve lined cells

The procedure targets the twelve surgical procedures, the first section of the small intestine. Twelve play a key role in digestion, including regulating levels of insulin and glucose in the blood. In people with type 2 diabetes, there is damage to the cells lining the twelve, and the hypothesis of the experiment is that removing these cells helps healthy cells grow back, improving the regulation of blood sugar levels.

Encouraging early results

Patients in the clinical trial undergo endoscopy to insert a device into the duodenum, which removes those dysfunctional cells with a series of electrical pulses. It takes no more than an hour, is performed under the influence of general anesthesia, and the patient goes out to his home on the same day.

Patients who underwent this procedure saw low blood glucose levels. If success persists, there may be a new treatment for diabetes within a few years.