See Also: Pancreas Transplant(health)
Transplant(medicine)
transplant(encyclopedia)
transplant(dictionary)
Transplant Coordinator(health)
autologous transplant(medicine)
transplant (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
syngeneic transplant(medicine)
transplant 2, noun(dictionary)
transplant 1, verb(dictionary)

Pancreas Transplant (health)


A surgical procedure that involves replacing the pancreas of a person who has diabetes with a healthy pancreas that can make insulin. The healthy pancreas comes from a donor who has just died or from a living relative. A person can donate half a pancreas and still live normally. |At present, pancreas transplants are usually performed in persons with Type 1 diabetes who have severe complications. This is because after the transplant the patient must take immunosuppressive drugs that are highly toxic and may cause damage to the body.