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What is the success rate for people who get pancreas transplants?
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Pancreas transplant: A pancreas transplant is sometimes done in people with type 1 diabetes who are also getting a kidney transplant, since they will be getting powerful immunosuppressants for the kidney anyway. How successful? 5 yr survival of insulin production was 50% but there has been some recent improvement, and some centers that do a lot of this have better results. You may not get off insulin, just take less.
Answered 8/17/2014
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