Pancreas Transplants

Studies in the area of pancreas transplants reported from A. Manrique and co-researchers

Published in Hospital Business Week, October 18th, 2009

"Surgical complications after pancreas transplantation, and subsequently relaparotomies, are frequently associated with graft loss, important morbidities, and ocasionally patient death. From March 1995 to September 2008, 118 diabetic patients underwent pancreas transplantation: 109 simultaneous pancreas-kidney and nine pancreas after kidney," investigators in Madrid, Spain report.

"There were 68 men and 50 women. Mean age at transplantation was 37.8 +/- 7.8 years (range = 25-66). We analyzed donor and recipient characteristics, rate of relaparotomies, risk factors, as well as patient and graft survivals. Forty patients (33.9%) underwent one or more relaparotomies. The...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2009-10-18)

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