Endoscopic duodenal mucosal ablation is being explored as a disease-modifying treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
If the approach is validated, “gastroenterologists will do more of these procedures than any other type of endoscopy,” predicted Jacques Bergman, MD, PhD, a professor of gastroenterology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center who is investigating the approach.
Data from animal models of T2DM show that insulin sensitivity can be improved by the delivering of