Do we still need to demonstrate the survival benefit of pancreas transplantation?

Pedro Ventura-Aguiar; Joana Ferrer; Jordi Rovira; Fritz Diekmann

doi:10.1111/ajt.15180

Do we still need to demonstrate the survival benefit of pancreas transplantation?

Am J Transplant. 2019 Apr;19(4):1241-1242. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15180. Epub 2018 Dec 4.

Authors

Pedro Ventura-Aguiar^{1

2}, Joana Ferrer³, Jordi Rovira^{2

4}, Fritz Diekmann^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.
² Laboratori Experimental de Nefrologia i Trasplantament, Fundacio Clinic - IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ REDinREN, Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 30417964
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15180

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical decision making; clinical research/practice; diabetes: type 1; organ procurement and allocation; pancreas/simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney Transplantation*
Pancreas
Pancreas Transplantation*
Tissue and Organ Procurement*