Pancreas transplants are rare, but they may help some people with type 1 diabetes produce insulin on their own. Learn the ...
Results of pancreas transplantation continue to improve and up to 90% of recipients with diabetes enjoy freedom from both insulin therapy and the need for close glucose monitoring following the ...
After six years of dialysis, Ivy Terry received a life-saving dual-organ transplant at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Now, ...
Doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have transplanted both a kidney and pancreas into a 49-year-old diabetes patient.UMC officials said the operation was performed Dec. 5. The ...
On either side of the middle of your back are your kidneys. Your kidneys help filter waste and toxins from your blood so they can be passed from your body as urine. Your pancreas sits behind your ...
An innovation in organ preservation is offering hope to patients with diabetes in need of pancreas transplants, a procedure that remains rare despite growing demand. More than 38 million Americans ...
An Anderson woman who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes talks about the life-changing gift she received when she received a ...
Tampa General Hospital performed the world’s first in-human pancreas transplant with a new technology that preserved the organ. The October operation, led by transplant surgeon Matthew Witt, MD, ...
Doctors at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences work in the only hospital in the state performing adult liver and kidney transplants, and they can now add kidney-pancreas transplants to that ...