The American College of Surgeons (ACS) issues a press release on October 17, 2005, announcing that total pancreatectomy plus autotransplantation of islet cells reduces intractable pain - without creating diabetes - in patients with chronic pancreatitis. The press release summarized a study presented by Dr. David E.R. Sutherland at the ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco.
In 1977, University of Minnesota surgeons performed the world's first pancreatectomy and autoislet transplant; today, as 1 of only 2 transplant centers that can perform both a pancreatectomy and autoislet transplant, we perform about two-thirds of all such procedures in the world.
Read the ACS press release.
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