[Personal experience with simultaneous transplantation of pancreas segment and kidney]

Between February 1988 and December 1994, 25 patients underwent simultaneous kidney and segmental pancreatic transplantation. Diabetes type I with the end-stage renal disease secondary to the diabetic nephropathy was the indication for this procedure. The original method of the four vascular anastomoses was introduced to prevent early pancreatic graft thrombosis. The cross section of the pancreatic segment was anastomosed to Roux--en Y loop in 80% cases and in 20% ductal occlusion with Ethiblock was performed. One-year survival rate for kidney and the pancreas was 81% and 57% and five - years survival rate 57% and 42%, respectively. One - year and five - year survival rate for the patients was 72% and 68%, respectively. The most serious complication leading to the graft removal was intrapancreatic abscess. Sepsis was the main cause of the death among transplant patients.