Can Pancreas Transplantation
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Pancreas
transplantation is harder than kidney transplant or heart transplant
and is still in the process of study and research, pancreas
digests itself because it contains many enzymes and materials digestive,
it is also technically difficult to the size of the link with the bile
duct, and risk factors more than the interest, and the number of
patients with diabetes, a large where agriculture will not be the best solution for all cases. Single
cultivation of the pancreas was used in some medical centers, but the
most commonly used are agriculture dual of the pancreas and kidney (at
the same time), and particularly when renal failure, The results
demonstrated a high success rate (76%) in the long term in cases of Type
I diabetes, also showed improvement
in neuropathy but not retinopathy does not know the reason for this,
but the main problem facing the patient is the need for constant and
continuous drug by limiting the immune system which prevents the body
from the expulsion of the implant, and complications of these drugs may
be more serious than the diabetes itself, so the single cultivation of the pancreas are not used so far throughout the world.
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