Individualized Metabolic Surgery Score: Procedure Selection Based on Diabetes Severity.

Ali Aminian1, Stacy A Brethauer, Amin Andalib

  • 1*Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH †Center for Bariatric Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada ‡Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH §Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Spain ¶Department of Surgery, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia ||Department of Surgery, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand **Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ††Endocrine and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH ‡‡CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Annals of Surgery
|July 26, 2017
PubMed
Summary

A new scoring system helps select bariatric surgery for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) based on severity. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) showed better long-term remission in intermediate T2DM than sleeve gastrectomy (SG).