Pancreatic Surgery
Pancreatic
surgery to treat
cancer and different conditions may be a tough operation that carries important risks, each throughout the procedure and whereas the patient recovers. Up to half patients develop serious complications and a couple of to four p.c don't survive the procedure — one in every of the best mortality rates for any operation.
One common complication is outflow of fluid from the duct gland once the surgery, usually in massive amounts which will cause AN symptom and cause
infection and infection. This outflow doubles the danger of death and leads to longer hospital stays whereas the fluid is drained. several patients even have to be compelled to be readmitted to alleviate this grave complication.
Now Memorial Sloan Charles Franklin Kettering clinical researchers have shown that a replacement drug may dramatically cut back the speed of outflow. Patients receiving the drug, pasireotide, during a part three trial had their rate of significant complication because of outflow cut in 0.5, and considerably fewer had to be readmitted to the hospital. Results prompt pasireotide is effective at interference secretion and reducing complications. Of the three hundred patients within the study, the researchers centered on the forty five World
Health Organization had duct gland outflow, and among this cluster noted whose outflow was severe enough to need insertion of a drain. Patients receiving the drug needed this intervention at a lower rate (9 percent) than those that received the placebo (21 percent). Those receiving the drug were conjointly less probably to want hospital admittance. The pasireotide cluster had a admittance rate of seventeen p.c compared with a rate of twenty nine p.c for the placebo cluster.
High Impact List of Articles
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Evaluating a dietary pattern in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus: The dash-d approach
Suzanne S Summer* , Sarah C Couch , Amy S Shah , Meghan P McNeill , Abigail D Peairs
Research Article: Diabetes Management
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Evaluating a dietary pattern in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus: The dash-d approach
Suzanne S Summer* , Sarah C Couch , Amy S Shah , Meghan P McNeill , Abigail D Peairs
Research Article: Diabetes Management
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Older people with diabetes - avoiding hospitalization
Ahmed H Abdelhafiz, Joanne J Russell, Andrew Key & Alan J Sinclair
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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Older people with diabetes - avoiding hospitalization
Ahmed H Abdelhafiz, Joanne J Russell, Andrew Key & Alan J Sinclair
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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Biomarkers currently used for the diagnosis of maturity-onset diabetes of the young
Saima A Mughal, Gaya Thanabalasingham & Katharine R Owen
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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Biomarkers currently used for the diagnosis of maturity-onset diabetes of the young
Saima A Mughal, Gaya Thanabalasingham & Katharine R Owen
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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How useful are hypertension guidelines for diabetes?
Peter M Nilsson
Policy Perspective: Diabetes Management
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How useful are hypertension guidelines for diabetes?
Peter M Nilsson
Policy Perspective: Diabetes Management
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Biomarkers for evaluating renal function decline in diabetes: where are we now?
Janet K Snell-Bergeon
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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Biomarkers for evaluating renal function decline in diabetes: where are we now?
Janet K Snell-Bergeon
Review Article: Diabetes Management
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The cause of Type 2 diabetes: a new paradigm
Paul Zimmet
Interview: Diabetes Management
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The cause of Type 2 diabetes: a new paradigm
Paul Zimmet
Interview: Diabetes Management
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