Erschienen in:
01.01.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Metabolic Surgery Could Restore Hepatic Glucose Metabolism: Results from F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography
verfasst von:
Yeongkeun Kwon, Kisoo Pahk, Sungsoo Park, Raul J. Rosenthal
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Excerpt
Bariatric surgery can cure most cases of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in morbidly obese patients. Furthermore, the reductions in mortality that result from bariatric surgery have mostly been attributed to decrease in diabetes-related deaths. Consequently, bariatric surgery has recently been proposed as a new treatment option for obesity-related T2DM in patients with a body mass index (BMI) below 35 kg/m
2 [
1]. However, the proposed mechanisms underlying diabetes remission after bariatric surgery have remained speculative. …