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A Method for Murine Islet Isolation and Subcapsular Kidney Transplantation
Published on: April 13, 2011
Are criteria for islet and pancreas donors sufficiently different to minimize competition?
Frédéric Ris1, Christian Toso, Florence Unno Veith
1Clinic for Digestive and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Islet and pancreas transplantation may compete for a limited number of organs. We analyzed records from the national Swiss transplant registry during a 4-year period to investigate the proportion of donors that are suitable for islet and pancreas transplantation. Suitability for pancreas transplantation was mainly defined as: age 10-45 years; weight
