Ronald F Parsons, Ekamol Tantisattamo, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Arpita Basu, Yee Lu, Krista L Lentine, Kenneth J Woodside, Neeraj Singh, Joseph Scalea, Tarek Alhamad, Ty B Dunn, Franco H Cabeza Rivera, Sandesh Parajuli, Martha Pavlakis, Matthew Cooper
Well-selected patients with kidney disease and diabetes mellitus who undergo simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation often experience dramatic improvements in quality of life and long-term survival compared to those who remain on medical therapy. Over the past several years the importance of frailty in the pancreas transplant candidate and recipient populations has grown. More patients with advanced age have entered the waitlist, and complications from prolonged diabetes, even in younger patients, have created increased evidence of risk for frailty...
January 2, 2023: Clinical Transplantation