TY - JOUR
T1 - Pancreas transplantation in the new millennium
T2 - the Indiana University experience.
AU - Fridell, Jonathan A.
AU - Mangus, Richard S.
AU - Powelson, John A.
AU - Mujtaba, Muhammad A.
AU - Chen, Jeanne M.
AU - Taber, Tim E.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Pancreas transplantation is one of the great challenges of modern abdominal transplantation. Success relies on a dedicated group of individuals, working together at all levels of care, to demonstrate experience and expertise from the pre-transplant evaluation to long-term followup. The pancreas transplant program at Indiana University is currently one of the most active in the Nation. With increased activity, we have begun to accept more complicated recipients including older and more obese individuals, retransplant candidates, and recipients with atherosclerotic diseases. We have been able to modify the operation in order to make it safer for recipients and we have documented our complications in the literature along with strategies and suggestions to avoid and manage them. Overall, we have found this to be an extremely grateful patient population and a very rewarding experience.
AB - Pancreas transplantation is one of the great challenges of modern abdominal transplantation. Success relies on a dedicated group of individuals, working together at all levels of care, to demonstrate experience and expertise from the pre-transplant evaluation to long-term followup. The pancreas transplant program at Indiana University is currently one of the most active in the Nation. With increased activity, we have begun to accept more complicated recipients including older and more obese individuals, retransplant candidates, and recipients with atherosclerotic diseases. We have been able to modify the operation in order to make it safer for recipients and we have documented our complications in the literature along with strategies and suggestions to avoid and manage them. Overall, we have found this to be an extremely grateful patient population and a very rewarding experience.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 22755410
AN - SCOPUS:84864079107
SN - 0890-9016
SP - 145
EP - 156
JO - Clinical transplants
JF - Clinical transplants
ER -