Pancreas transplant for people with diabetes, does it work or not?

The results of pancreas transplants continue to improve and up to 90% of the receptors with diabetes are fought from both insulin therapy and the need for close control of glucose after the procedure, according to a new article published in the 'Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & AMP;Metabolism ', of the American endocrine society.

The pancreas transplant is a type of surgery in which a person with diabetes receives a pancreas of a healthy donor while the natural pancreas is not removed.People who receive a successful pancreas transplant no longer need insulin and have good blood glucose control.The counterpart is that it is an important surgical intervention and requires that patients take medications to partially suppress their immune system during the rest of their life.

"A pancreas transplant mitigates changes in blood sugar levels, eliminates stigma and daily load of diabetes, restores normal blood sugar regulation in patients with complicated diabetes and improves quality and life expectancy"explains Dr. Jonathan A. Fridell, head of abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Indiana Faculty (United States).

"Despite the constant improvement of the results, together with the expansion of the patient selection criteria to include some patients with type 2 diabetes, there has been a decrease in pancreas transplant surgeries in recent years,"duck.

Patients who undergo a successful pancreas transplant can achieve better glucose control beyond what can be achieved with any other form of diabetes treatment to date.

However, the number of transplants has decreased due to several factors, such as the lack of a primary source of derivation and general acceptance by the Diabetics Community;the absence of agreed criteria;and access problems, education and resources within the transplant community.

"The possibility of performing a pancreas transplant to a greater number of patients with diabetes that do not exceed insulin treatment or who experience progressive diabetic complications, regardless of the type of diabetes-fridell re-recomienda-.and chronic renal disease should undergo a combined kidney and pancreas transplant, regardless of geography or location. "

If diabetes 1 is autoimmune and put a healthy pancreas how long will take your antibodies to load the beta cells of the pancreas?

I think like @ensalada, the antibodies would end up destroying the beta cells of the pancreas (either I know how long it would take).And on the side, a transplant are major words.Come on, I don't see it so easy as to do so happily ...

To avoid that @ENSALADA would take immunosuppressants for life.I don't know to what extent it is feasible.

Immunosuppressants are taken to avoid the attack of antibodies, but that affects the defenses of the entire organism.
I only see it beneficial when the kidney must also transplant.

Nor crazy I let my son do that, with a Low Carb diet we carry it quite well.