The role of physician in pancreas transplant

Abstract

Pancreas transplantations are carried out on patients whose insulin secretion is completely depleted. As a long-standing type 1 diabetes patient and also as a diabetologist, I find it not so difficult to control blood glucose in most patients who apply simultaneous pancreas kidney transplant. As a transplant physician, I focus on topics about blood glucose control before and after pancreas transplant, management of the medical team during the perioperative period, insulin independence, and pancreas graft loss.