International Handbook of Pancreas Transplantation

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction and history of pancreatic transplantation....Pages 1-11
Modern concepts of diabetes and its pathogenesis....Pages 13-24
Experimental pancreas transplantation: a survey of relevant issues....Pages 25-47
Indication for combined pancreas and kidney transplantation....Pages 49-57
Indication for pancreas transplantation alone....Pages 59-70
Surgical techniques and complications....Pages 71-130
Organ preservation....Pages 131-154
Pre-, per- and post-operative care of pancreas transplantation recipient....Pages 155-165
Immunosuppression for pancreas transplant recipients....Pages 167-186
The diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic rejection....Pages 187-202
Pathology of pancreas grafts....Pages 203-223
Endocrine function of the pancreatic graft....Pages 225-238
Exocrine function of the pancreas graft....Pages 239-255
Effect of pancreas transplantation on secondary complications of diabetes....Pages 257-289
Pancreas transplant registry....Pages 291-322
Pancreas transplant experience of individual institutions Experience of the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA....Pages 323-328
Experience of the University of Barcelona....Pages 329-340
Experience of the University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK....Pages 341-344
Experience of the University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium....Pages 345-351
Experience of the University of Cambridge Clinical School, Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, England....Pages 353-357
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA....Pages 359-364
Experience of the Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA....Pages 365-370
Experience of the University of Genoa, Transplant Unit, Genoa, Italy....Pages 371-374
Experience of the Sahlgren’s Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden....Pages 375-378
Experience of University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria....Pages 379-381
Experience of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA....Pages 383-388
Experience of the Hôpital Edouard Herriot, University of Lyon I, Lyon, France....Pages 389-398
Experience of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA....Pages 399-404
Experience of the University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, FRG....Pages 405-411
Experience of the National Hospital, Oslo, Norway....Pages 413-419
Experience of the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA....Pages 421-422
Experience of the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czechoslovakia....Pages 423-427
Experience of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA....Pages 429-437
Experience of the Huddinge Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden....Pages 439-447
Experience of the University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland....Pages 449-453
Islet transplantation a review of the objective, the concepts, the problems, the progress and the future....Pages 455-478
The implantable artificial pancreas....Pages 479-517
Perspectives in pancreatic transplantation....Pages 519-529
Back Matter....Pages 531-552