Pancreas Transplantation and Report of 1st one in IRAN

SUMMARY Since 1923, the type I diabetic patients are treating with injections of insulin. Mortality of these patients decreased, comparing with noninsulin using patients, but many of them developed complications of diabetes mellitus, like nephropathy, retinopathy and neuropathy. The choice for treating this diseas and preventing its complications is pancrease transplantation, The 1st pancreas transplantation in Iran was done hy our team at 5th of June 1994, for a 22year old man, which was taken from his mother. We anastomosed the artery and vein to right iliac artery and inferior vena cava, respectively and After this transplantation, blood suger of patient decreased to normal level, without any insulin injection. After two months he developed acute appendicitis an