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Diabetes > Pancreas Transplant
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Pancreas Transplant Defined
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.
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- Multispecialty Organ Transplant Facility at GHC:: Since the inception of multispecialty organ transplant department at GHC, it has performed many life saving kidney, heart, pancreas, lung transplants, thus making it one of the renowned departments allover India.
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- Professor, Duluth businessman join in finding cure for diabetes | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota: Professor Bernard Hering is investigating a way of preventing rejection when pig islets are transplanted into humans. Apparently the nature of the rejection that occurs between species is different from that occurring when transplanting within species...
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- Michael Moore: How He Felt About Healthcare Years Ago: In the wake of his new movie, "Sicko&qu ot; being released in theaters soon, we dug up an old clip from him covering healthcare in the past. Want to see how he dealt with it then?
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