Pancreas Transplant Candidates
Pancreas Transplant Candidates
People who generally are not candidates include those with metastatic cancer, active infection or severe medical problems.
Expertise: Since our first kidney-pancreas transplant in 1988, we have performed 990 kidney-pancreas transplant surgeries. In addition, we have performed more than 170 pancreas transplants alone. We are also among the busiest kidney-pancreas centers in the world and the only adult transplant center in central Ohio.
Experience: Our Comprehensive Transplant Center has one of the largest organ transplant programs in the nation and is a preferred provider for all major insurance companies. Each year we perform nearly 600 kidney, liver, pancreas, combined kidney-pancreas, heart and lung transplants. Since our program started in 1967, we have performed 12,500 lifesaving organ transplants.
Leading-edge treatments: We are one of the few sites in North America approved to process pancreatic islet cells for transplantation that may cure type 1 diabetes.
Pancreas transplant research: We participate in clinical trials of new immunosuppressive drugs and anti-rejection therapies.