The artificial pancreas, an automated and portable device, is already used in diabetic patients. Research at the UMC in Amsterdam demonstrated that the self-learning artificial pancreas is also an alternative for patients who have had their entire pancreas removed. “The artificial pancreas works with both hormones (glucagon and insulin) and has a self-learning algorithm that adapts the treatment to each patient,” explains internist-endocrinologist Hans de Vries of the UMC in Amsterdam.
Artificial pancreas good alternative
UMC Amsterdam, together with the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group and Inreda Diabetic, conducted a study on 10 patients whose pancreas had been removed. He compared the use of the artificial pancreas with standard diabetes treatment.
Patients surveyed appeared to spend a much longer period with corrected blood glucose values on average than patients with standard diabetes treatment. The artificial pancreas caused the glucose value to fluctuate within the corrected range more than three-quarters of the time (78%) during a 7-day treatment. With standard treatment this was just over half (57%).
“The patients were mostly very satisfied with the freedom this device gives them back. For example, after years of dietary restrictions, they can eat everything again without their glucose levels fluctuating enormously and are able to perform many more activities with the device, “says Charlotte van Veldhuisen, MD, MD, MD, Amsterdam. .
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The research that has now been conducted by the UMC in Amsterdam, and thus has produced promising results for the use of an artificial pancreas, is not the first evidence that this solution improves the daily lives of diabetic patients. Investigating since UMC Utrechtte outside the Netherlands, in Cambridgethey have also previously shown that the artificial pancreas is a good solution for both forms of diabetes (type 1 and type 2).
Research from the UMC in Amsterdam now shows that the artificial pancreas is also a good alternative for patients whose pancreas has been completely or partially removed.
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