Diabetes Info » hyperglycemia http://diabetesinfodesk.com A guide to Diabetes Mellitus and its Management Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:01:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Heart Surgery Linked To Raised Blood Sugar http://diabetesinfodesk.com/heart-surgery-linked-to-raised-blood-sugar/ http://diabetesinfodesk.com/heart-surgery-linked-to-raised-blood-sugar/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:34:33 +0000 tony http://diabetesinfodesk.com/?p=110 Research by the University of Michigan Health System shows that almost half of patients going through heart surgery may need to be treated temporarily for diabetes using insulin. This is because the stress of surgery will cause blood sugar to go sky-high. This phenomenon, known commonly as stress-induced hyperglycemia, is often seen in other stress-related situations such as pregnancy and infections. A raised blood sugar level during heart and vascular surgery is related to poorer recovery and a higher risk of infection and death. Stress-induced hyperglycemia occurs when the body reacts to the double insults of having an operation on the heart or major blood vessels, and of being cooled down by the heart-bypass machine to protect the heart muscle during surgery

Fortunately most patients recover from this problem after surgery.

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