Since the introduction of pancreas transplantation more than 40 years ago, efforts to develop
more minimally invasive techniques for endocrine replacement therapy have been in …

Background Pancreas transplantation remains the gold standard for treatment for type I
diabetes providing an insulin-independent, normoglycemic state. Increasingly, donation …

This document was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society of Critical Care
Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Association of Organ …

The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) champions efforts to increase organ
donation. Controlled donation after cardiac death (DCD) offers the family and the patient …

Pancreas allograft acceptance is markedly more selective than other solid organs. The
number of pancreata recovered is insufficient to meet the demand for pancreas transplants …

OBJECTIVE: To report the long-term outcomes of 1218 organs transplanted from donation
after cardiac death (DCD) donors from January 1980 through December 2008. METHODS …

The interest in donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) was renewed in the early 1990s,
as a means to partially overcome the shortage of donations after brain death. In some …

Fridell JA, Rogers J, Stratta RJ. The pancreas allograft donor: current status, controversies,
and challenges for the future. Clin Transplant 2010: 24: 433–449.© 2010 John Wiley & Sons …

BACKGROUND: Most reports of donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are exclusive to
kidney transplantation and report high rates of delayed graft function (DGF). STUDY …

Successful pancreas or islet transplantation is currently the only cure for type 1 diabetes
mellitus. Since the first pancreas transplant in 1966, there have been various refinements of …