Articles tagged "Pancreas transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancies in Female Pancreas Transplant Alone Recipients
P. Patel,¹ D. Kliniewski,² L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² S. Constantinescu,^2,3 M. Moritz.^1,2,4
¹Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ²Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia; ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
This is the first series report of pregnancies after pancreas transplant alone (PTA). Data were collected by the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPR) via questionnaires,…
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Declining Number of Pancreas after Kidney Transplants Despite Significant Improvement in Outcome
A. Gruessner,¹ M. Laftavi,² O. Pankewycz,² R. Gruessner.¹
¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; ²SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction: The number of whole organ pancreas transplants declined significantly over the past 15 years. The largest decrease was seen in pancreas after kidney (PAK)…
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Effect of Donor-Recipient Gender-Mismatch on Long Term Function after Pancreas Transplantation
F. Messner,¹ C. Bösmüller,¹ M. Maglione,¹ M. Riedmann,² R. Oberhuber,¹ B. Cardini,¹ T. Resch,¹ S. Schneeberger,¹ C. Margreiter.¹
¹Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ²Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Background: Several studies in solid organ transplantation have shown a correlation between gender-match and risk of graft loss. In this study we aimed to analyze…
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To Score a Pancreas, Stars Must Be Aligned
A. Friedman, P. Bagavan, K. Delli Carpini.
LiveOnNY, NY.
Excellent medical care and readily accessible insulin preparations serve to require a very high quality of deceased donor pancreas organs accepted for transplantation. Improving, prevailing…
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Pancreas Transplant in the Elderly Patient – Should It Be Done?
A. Gruessner,¹ M. Laftavi,² O. Pankewycz,² R. Gruessner.¹
¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; ²SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction: While kidney transplantation in the elderly diabetic patient is an accepted treatment of the secondary complication, pancreas transplants are controversial. Many centers have an…
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Decline in Pancreas Transplantation Numbers is Accompanied with Lower Publication Rates
S. Benjamens,¹ C. Margreiter,² E. de Koning,³ H. Leuvenink,¹ R. Pol.¹
¹University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; ³Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Introduction: After several years of growth in many pancreas transplant (PTx) programs, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) reports a decline in PTx numbers…
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Outcomes from Brain Death Donors with Cardiac Arrest Accepted for Pancreas Transplantation
P. Ventura-Aguiar,¹ J. Ferrer,² D. Paredes,³ C. Rodriguez,³ C. Fontdevilla,² E. Esmatjes,⁴ J. Garcia-Valdecasas,² F. Oppenheimer,¹ F. Diekmann,¹ M. Ricart.¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ²Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ³Organ Transplantation Coordination Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Diabetes Unit, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
Donor selection has a major impact on pancreas transplantation. Cardiac arrest and hypoxemia produce an insult to endothelial cell and may increase the risk of…
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Pancreas Graft Function >10 Years: The Cumulative US Experience
A. Gruessner,¹ M. Laftavi,² O. Pankewycz,² R. Gruessner.¹
¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Broooklyn, NY; ²SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Background and Study Purpose: The cumulative US experience with long-term pancreas graft function has not been reported.Methods: Between 1966 and 2005, 18,197 pancreas transplants due…
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Evolutive Analysis of a 20-Year Pancreas Transplant Program
M. Perosa,¹ J. Branez,¹ L. Mota,¹ H. Noujaim,¹ B. Zeballos,¹ L. Ianhez,¹ L. Alvim,¹ D. Machado,¹ C. Watanabe,¹ F. Sergi,¹ M. Paredes,¹ T. Genzini-Miranda,² A. Silvestre,³ G. Martinho,⁴ T. Genzini.¹
¹Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Leforte Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ²Medical School, PUC Sorocaba, Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ³Medical School, Sao Camilo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ⁴Medical School, Ciências Médicas Santa Casa, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
There is a worldwide trend towards a reduction in the annual number of pancreas transplants (PT). In Brazil, only two centers have performed more than…
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Low Intensity Conditioning Protocol for Inducing Chimerism-Based Tolerance in Non-Obese Diabetic Mice
A. Chhabra, Y. Huang, H. Xu, A. Merchak, S. Ildstad.
Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic disease affecting children. Islet cell or pancreas transplantation offer the most physiologic approach to glucose homostasis. However…