Pancreas transplants can treat diabetes

More than 90% of pancreas transplants occur in tandem with a kidney transplant. Transplant surgery chief Reza Saidi, MD, discusses cases where a transplanted pancreas alone can resolve some cases of diabetes. He recently published a paper on this topic in the World Journal of Surgery.
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