In July 1988, the liver and pancreas of a cadaveric donor were transplanted separately into a man with type 1 diabetes with end-stage chronic hepatitis B virus. Two features of the operation may help explain the patient's current status as the longest-lived liver-pancreas recipient. One was enteric drainage of pancreatic exocrine secretions. The other was delivery of the pancreas venous effluent to the host portal system and then directly to the hepatic allograft. © 2007 AASLD.
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Harary, A. M., Abu-Eimagd, K., Thai, N., Shapiro, R., Todo, S., Fung, J. J., & Starzl, T. E. (2007). World’s longest surviving liver-pancreas recipient. Liver Transplantation, 13(7), 957–960. https://doi.org/10.1002/lt.21223
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