Many in the diabetes community view islet transplants to treat Type 1 diabetes as trading in one set of problems for another. While such transplants often restore the body’s insulin-producing and blood-sugar controlling abilities, they do not address the autoimmune component of the disease. Therefore, patients have to take immunosuppressant drugs, which slow the body’s attack on the transplanted islets but also open the patient to other sicknesses. (more…)
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Islet Transplant Patients Swear By Procedure
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Italy Carries Out First Hi-Tech Pancreas Transplant
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Italian doctors have completed the world’s first robotically assisted pancreatic transplant.
This operation could lead to new solutions for diabetes treatments because the procedure’s “mini–invasive” nature significantly reduces post–operation complications‚ according to the surgical team at the university hospital in Pisa. Using the robotic technique‚ surgeons can carry out the transplant with three small holes and a seven–centimeter (more…)