Science news articles about 'pancreas transplant'

... Dr. Johnny C. Hong, assistant professor of surgery, Department of Surgery and Liver and Pancreas Transplantation at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California ...

... Dr. José Oberholzer, director of cell and pancreas transplantation at UIC and lead author of the study ... two or three sequential islet cell transplants to achieve insulin-independence. The six patients ...

... and live with continued diabetes?" If they opt for kidney transplant alone, they then must decide whether to undergo a separate pancreas transplant later on. In Wiseman's study, even this ...

... surgery and director of kidney and pancreas transplant programs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell ... Age Following Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation [107] Concurrent Session 15: Donor/ ...

... the African American and Hispanic population that they are not making with other racial groups." A kidney/pancreas transplant is the only current, reliable way to give diabetics normal glucose and ...

... dependent on insulin injections, an insulin pump or in rare cases a pancreas transplant. Unlike the more common form of the disease, known as type II diabetes, type I diabetes usually ...

... researchers looked at the two most common drugs used for induction immunosuppression therapy with kidney and pancreas transplants: alemtuzumab, a newer drug that costs about $1,000 per single-dose ...