DIABETES TREATMENT BY PANCREAS TRANSPLANT?
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at
2:13 am
Ok, we do not have diabetes, though we do similar to the sweets, so I’m a small disturbed about sort II after in life. Cutting behind upon those. However, we consider we recollect conference which sort II is caused by your pancreas being incompetent to furnish sufficient insulin. So, could we provide sort II diabetes by you do a pancreatic transplant?
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Ok, heres the deal. Diabetes is a disease characterized by the absence of insulin or the resistance to it. This idea may work, depending on what type of diabetes one has. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease and you have to be genitically predispositioned. In type one diabetes, the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas have been destroyed by the body, so insulin is absent. Here, a pancreas transplant could be performed, but there is no evidence for this procedure, so we dont know if the body would just destroy the insulin producing cells again. In type 2 diabetes, there is a peripheral resistance to insulin. This means, that the body is producing insulin, but it doesn’t respond properly. Here, a pancreas transplant would be absolutely no good, because the pancreas could be working fine, but the problem is how the body responds to the insulin produced.
Type 1 is when the pancreas fails to work.
Type 2 is when the body cannot absorb the insulin from the pancreas . In time the pancreas may stop producing insulin.
The problem with a pancreas transplant is that the person would then have to take anti-rejection drugs for life. Those are much more dangerous than treating diabetes.
Scientists are working on transplanting the islet cell in conjunction with kidney transplants since the patient will already have to take inti-rejection drugs.
We are doing pancreas transplant where i work but we do it simultaneously with the kidney transplant. We do it for patients with kidney failure with diabetes (doesn’t matter if the patient is type I or typeII). I am not sure if there is a unit that do pancreas transplant alone. I have heard of islet injection of the pancreas but I don’t know if enough study has been done on that.
If you like sweets, that is ok. You need to exercise at least 3-4 times a week to manage your weight. Obesity is the number one cause of people with diabetes. The rate is still increasing.
I do not recall having heard anything about a pancreas transplant. If that is true why do they not do that when pancreatic cancer occurs?