The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s transplant team has achieved a first: transplanting both a kidney and pancreas into a 49-year-old diabetes patient.
The hospital isn’t yet revealing the name of the man who received the transplant Dec. 5 but is saying he’s coped with Type 1 diabetes since childhood, which resulted in his kidneys failing. Even so, his doctors said he took very good care of himself, making him a good candidate for transplant.
It’s the hospital’s first pancreas transplant in addition to being the first pancreas-kidney transplant.
“Our goal has been to build a complete and high-functioning abdominal transplant program,” Dr. Christopher Anderson, UMC associate professor of transplant surgery and division chief of transplant and hepatobiliary surgery, said in a news release.
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