Pancreas Transplantation Toledo-Pereyra Luis H.
In December, 1966, two patients dying of months after the transplants had been per- uremia as a result of diabetic kidney disease formed. This was long enough, however, to were offered a small chance…
Specifikacia Pancreas Transplantation Toledo-Pereyra Luis H.
In December, 1966, two patients dying of months after the transplants had been per- uremia as a result of diabetic kidney disease formed. This was long enough, however, to were offered a small chance of survival. Ac- establish unequivocally in both patients cording to the thinking of the time, it was that an endocrine organ, the pancreas, could inappropriate-and perhaps even unethical- function normally and for many days as a to offer them either chronic hemodialysis or human-to-human graft. The patients had kidney transplantation. These were considered become normoglycemic independent of insulin a waste of effort because it was believed that injections. scarce medical resources should not be spent The possible long-term benefits of restoring on patients, uremic or not, whose chances of insulin function were hotly argued then, and surviving for more than a few months were they have not
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