Nikolas
Created page with "'''Pancreas transplantation''' is a treatment for type 1 diabetes, and the only treatment which can make patients insulin independent and euglycaemic. However, the lifelong immunosuppressive treatment may be more harmful than the alternative lifelong insulin therapy, and so a risk/benefit analysis must be taken into account. Pancreas transplantation may be performed alone (pancreas transplant alone, PTA), simultaneously as kidney transplant (simultaneous pan..."