The history of vascularized pancreas transplantation largely parallels developments in
immunosuppression and technical refinements in transplant surgery. From the late-1980s to …

The aim of this minireview is to compare various pancreas transplantation exocrine drainage
techniques ie, bladder vs enteric. Both techniques have different difficulties and …

Several exocrine drainage procedures have been successfully developed to perform
pancreas transplantation (PT). Retroperitoneal graft placement allows exocrine drainage via …

Introduction In the 50 years since the first pancreas transplant performed at the University of
Minnesota, the surgical techniques employed have undergone many modifications …

Enteric complications remain a major cause of morbidity in the post‐transplant period of
pancreas transplantation despite improvements surgical technique. The aim of this single …

Systemic–enteric drainage is currently the most common technique for pancreas
transplantation (PT). A novel alternative technique, portal–duodenal drainage (PDD), has …

Pancreas transplantation is an accepted treatment for a subset of patients with diabetes
mellitus, in particular those with renal failure who also require a kidney transplant and those …

Improvements in pancreas transplantation over time were in large part the result of
continued progress in developing new or refining existing surgical techniques. No other …

The history of vascularized pancreas transplantation (PTx) largely parallels advances in
surgical techniques and clinical immunosuppression. In the 1980s, the introduction of …

Importance Since the 1980s, pancreas transplant has become the most effective treatment
strategy to restore euglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. However, technical …