World's longest surviving liver-pancreas recipient.

Kidney transplantation under FK 506 immunosuppression.

W E RECENTLY reported our initial experience with FK 506 in 36 patients undergoing renal transplan-tation. 1 This series was characterized by a high average complexity. and included 10 patients who also were liver recipients either concomitantly or at an earlier time. Additionally , 2 of the 10 also were given a heart or pancreas. We report here a follow-up of the 26 patients from that original...

Combined en bloc liver/pancreas transplantation in two different patients.

Combined en bloc liver/pancreas transplantation (CLPT) was used primarily in the treatment of otherwise non-resectable upper abdominal malignancy. In fact, a more appropriate indication is in patients with liver disease and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Here, we report on two successful cases of CLPT at our hospital. One was a patient with non-resectable advanced liver cancer. The...

Whipple's procedure in a renal transplant recipient with polycystic liver disease.

CONTEXT Polycystic disease is a rare disorder, which most commonly manifests in the kidney and liver. Recently an increased risk for pancreatic malignancies in subsets of patients with polycystic disease has been reported. CASE REPORT We report a patient with polycystic liver and kidney disease who successfully underwent a Whipple's procedure for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. CONCLUSION Althou...

Mentha, Dracocephalum and Propolis effects on the health of Pancreas and Liver cells

Upper-abdominal exenteration in transplantation for extensive malignancies of the upper abdomen--an update.

Upper-abdominal exenteration (resection of the liver, pancreas, spleen, stomach, duodenum, and usually part of the colon) has been proposed for treatment of otherwise unresectable tumors (1). Replacement of the removed organs was originally with a liver homograft in continuity with the donor pancreas and a segment of duodenum. With a simplified version of this operation, only the liver is repla...