The optimal order of revascularization for pancreas and kidney grafts in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation has not been established. In this study, we investigate the influence of graft implantation order on graft survival in SPK. 12 700 transplantations from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients were analyzed retrospectively. Graft implantation order was determined based ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Multifocal lesions of the pancreas generally require a total pancreatectomy. However, total pancreatectomy causes severe and permanent pancreatic endocrine and exocrine insufficiency. The aim of this study was to review our experiences of combined resection of the pancreas as an alternative to total pancreatectomy. METHODOLOGY From July 2004 to July 2011, 5 patients were indic...

To better understand the relationship between the endocrine and exocrine cell types in the Xenopus pancreas, we have cloned the Xenopus amylase cDNA and compared its expression profile with that of four other pancreatic markers: insulin, glucagon, elastase and trypsinogen. Our results demonstrate that the first pancreatic marker to be expressed is insulin, exclusively in the dorsal pancreas. Th...

The success of pancreas transplantation has improved over the past several decades with advancements in surgical technique, immunosuppressive medicines, and immunologic testing. We retrospectively reviewed our experience with pancreas transplantation from 1995 to 2008. At the Baylor Regional Transplant Program, 151 pancreas transplants were performed in 147 patients: 135 were simultaneous pancr...

Pancreas Transplantation aims at providing Beta cells replacement in diabetic patients, especially for type 1 diabetes recipients in whom Beta cells had been destroyed by an autoim‐ mune process. The final achievement is to restore a normal physiological control of glucose metabolism in order to halt or reverse the secondary complications of diabetes i.e. retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, m...

Computed tomography (CT) of the pancreas shows specific images in cases of pancreatitis or malignant tumors. However. precise a nalysis of CT images of the pancreas in other diseases or in normal individuals has not been made. After an extensive study on the pancreatic CT images of patients without liver cirrhosis. gall stones. diahetes mellitus. malignant tumors or pancreatitis. we reponed tha...

Assays of glycogenolytic factor in samples of insulin prepared from the pancreas of ox, sheep and pig (Audy & Kerly, 1952) suggest that there is little difference in the glycogenolytic-factor content of pancreas from these animals. In an attempt to find a richer source of the factor, extracts of pancreas from cats, rats, ferrets and guinea pigs have been assayed for their glycogenolytic-factor ...