Donor pancreata: evolving approaches to organ allocation for whole pancreas versus islet transplantation.

Journal article

As islet transplantation increasingly enters the clinical arena, its coexistence with vascularized pancreas transplantation makes it necessary to reassess the questions of donor selection and allocation. In answering these questions, one must put in the balance the short-term morbidity of pancreas transplantation with the long-term attrition of islet grafts. The preferential allocation of pancreases from obese and older donors for islet isolation has been based on their association with worse...

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Authors: Berney, T; Johnson, P

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Transplantation
• Volume: 90
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 238-243
• Publication date: 2010-08-01
• DOI: 10.1097/tp.0b013e3181e25a40
• EISSN: 1534-6080
• ISSN: 0041-1337
• Language: English
• Keywords: Practice Guidelines as Topic; Body Mass Index; Tissue Donors; Humans; Health Care Rationing; Graft Survival; Donor Selection; Time Factors; Risk Assessment; Quality of Health Care; Treatment Outcome; Age Factors; Risk Factors; Pancreas Transplantation; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Islets of Langerhans Transplantation