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In most cases, pancreas transplantation is performed on people with type 1 diabetes with end-stage renal disease, brittle diabetes, and hypoglycaemic unawareness. Other type 2 diabetics can benefit from a pancreas transplant. The indications for a type 2 diabetic are a BMI < 30 kg/m2 and low overall insulin requirement (< 1 U/kg/day).
Richard C. Lillehei (10 December 1927 - 1 April 1981) was an American transplant surgeon who performed the world's first successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant in 1966 (sometimes quoted as 1967) and the first known human intestinal transplantation.
Five-year follow-up after clinical islet transplantation. Diabetes. 2005 Jul;54(7):2060-9. Sutherland DE, Gruessner RW, Gruessner AC. Pancreas transplantation for treatment of diabetes mellitus. World J Surg. 2001 Apr;25(4):487-96. Shapiro AMJ, Ricordi C, Hering BJ et al. International trial of the Edmonton protocol for islet transplantation. N ...
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Among common consequences of complete or nearly complete pancreatectomy are deficiencies of pancreatic endocrine or exocrine function requiring replacement of insulin or digestive enzymes. The patient immediately develops type 1 diabetes, with little hope for future type 1 diabetes treatments involving the restoration of endocrine function to a ...
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Concurrently, Kyuranger members Stinger, Hammie, and Spada search for Lucky, but track Minato's guitar to a warehouse, where the Lupinrangers and BN thieves learn that Lipig is working with Don Arkage, who intends to use the Hyper Planedium in Minato's guitar to become invincible. The Lupinrangers and Kyurangers confront the two and defeat ...
Although it accounts for only 2.5% of new cases, pancreatic cancer is responsible for 6% of cancer deaths each year. [114] It is the seventh-highest cause of death from cancer worldwide. [10] Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most-common cause of death from cancer in the United Kingdom, [19] and the third most-common in the United States. [20]