TX Hospital Trialing Surgery to Cure Diabetes

    A Texas hospital has started trials of an experimental surgery that could cure one type of diabetes.

    FOX News Radio’s Chris Hoenig has details:

    It’s a procedure aimed at curing Type-II diabetes.  Doctors at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston first saw the operation being used in Brazil.  Five small incisions are made in the abdomen, allowing surgeons to move the ileum from the bottom of the small intestine to the top, right next to the stomach.

    (Wilson) “Ileum produce special hormones, they improve insulin sensitivity.”

    Dr. Erik Wilson says half of the Brazilian patients were cured, and the others all improved.  Marie Alonso is having the surgery…

    (Alonso) “I just wanted to be like everyone else, and not have to give insulin.”

    And Dr. Wilson says the odds are…

    (Wilson) “…Greatly in her favor that she’ll be cured of her diabetes after this procedure.”

    Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.

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