Imaging pancreas transplants
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Should we be performing pancreas transplants?
The vast majority of the 1 million people with Type I diabetes in the United States are treated with maintenance exogenous insulin therapy. Only about 1 in 1000 (approximately 1300/year) are treated with transplantation. The whole organ pancreas transplant has been one of the most difficult organs to transplant successfully because of a high risk for pancreatitis, graft thrombosis and rejection...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Radiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0007-1285,1748-880X
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20130428