Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes

This book provides a concise, state-of-the art review of the surgical treatment of metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus.  The volume reviews what current practices in surgery and metabolic syndrome and diabetes including the biohormonal effects of the different surgeries. Isolating the effects of the different procedures is critical to the decision tree for type of procedure selected for an individual patient. Specifically for diabetes, this textbook will provide a guide for practitioners to a tailored approach to the treatment. Areas of ongoing research that highlight the minimally invasive approach as well as incorporating what we know of the biochemical results of surgery are presented.  Results of established weight loss procedures and ongoing trials are juxtaposed against some of the more novel techniques to ascertain a best practice.

Metabolic Surgery and the Surgical Treatment of Diabetes serves as a very useful resource for physicians and researchers dealing with, and interested in, this rising epidemic of metabolic syndrome and diabetes.  It  provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.

• BPD/DS
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Duodenojejunal bypass
• Gastric Banding
• Gastric Bypass
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Sleeve Gastrectomy
• Syndrome X
• diabetes

• Department of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA

  Marina Kurian

• Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA

  Bruce M. Wolfe

• Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  Sayeed Ikramuddin

Marina Kurian

Director, New York Minimally Invasive Surgery PLLC

Clinical Associate Professor

Department of Surgery 

NYU School of Medicine

New York, NY

Bruce Wolfe

Department of Surgery

3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd

Portland, OR 97239

Sayeed Ikramuddin University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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