Impact of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Pancreas Transplant Outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: Pancreas transplant can be performed with excellent and equivalent outcomes in patients with type 1 and carefully selected type 2 diabetes mellitus. Patients with type 2 disease are more likely to have posttransplant pancreatitis and BK virus nephropathy, affecting the net benefit for transplant.
PMID: 30501589 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Rohan V, Taber D, Palanisamy A, Mcgillicuddy J, Chavin K, Baliga P, Bratton C Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research
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