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The pancreas is an organ that makes insulin and enzymes that help the body digest and use food. A pancreas transplant is surgery to place a healthy pancreas from a donor into a person with a diseased pancreas. A common reason for this type of damage is diabetes. Pancreas transplants can enable people with type 1 diabetes to give up insulin shots. An experimental procedure called islet cell transplantation transplants only the parts of the pancreas that make insulin.
People who have transplants must take drugs to keep their body from rejecting the new pancreas for the rest of their lives. They must also have regular follow-up care.
A '''pancreas transplant''' is an organ transplant that involves replacing the pancreas of a person who has diabetes with a healthy pancreas that can make insulin. The healthy pancreas comes from a donor who has just died or from a living relative. A person can donate half a pancreas and still live normally. At present, pancreas transplants are usually performed in persons with insulin-dependent diabetes who have severe complications. This is because after the transplant the patient must take immunosuppressive drugs that are highly toxic and may cause damage to the body; for a majority of diabetics, a lifetime on insulin is a better option. [ Read More ]
USC Liver Transplant Program and Center for Liver Disease - Specializing in the surgical and medical management of the following disease entities: pancreas, liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, portal hypertension surgery, and liver transplantation.
LifeNet - A non-profit organ procurement organization providing donation systems for heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, and other organs for transplant.
University of Maryland Transplant Center - Home of the nation's largest kidney transplant program. A comprehensive center with programs for kidney, pancreas, simultaneous kidney-pancreas, liver, heart and lung transplantation.
Transplant Week -- Your Online Transplant Newsletter - News and information from doctors and leading medical centers about latest developments in kidney, pancreas, liver, heart and lung transplantation. Updated daily.
Mary Lea Johnson Richards Transplant Center at NYU Hospitals Center - Offers liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation.
California Pacific Medical Center's Kidney & Pancreas Transplant - Provides information on kidney and pancreas transplant evaluation, living donation and surgery at California Pacific Medical Center and our Northern California outreach sites.
The Transplant Center at Fairview-University Medical Center - A unique partnership of University of Minnesota Physicians Transplant Program and Fairview Health Services offering heart, intestinal, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas and islet transplantation services.
Mayo Clinic Transplant Center - Offers comprehensive care to adults and children in need of heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, or blood or marrow transplantation.
Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center - Provide comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care of surgical diseases involving transplantation of kidneys, livers, heart, heart/lung, and pancreas.
St. John Health System - Provides surgery residency, laparoscopic nephrectomy, kidney and pancreas transplant, cardiac disease, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and childbirth health care. Located in Detroit, Michigan.