title: Pancreas transplantation: international registry data.
abstract: The International Pancreas Transplant Registry received information on 1,157 pancreas transplants between December 1966 and April 1987. The results have progressively improved (p less than 0.001); graft and recipient survival rates at 1 year were 5% and 40% for 1966-1977 cases (N = 60), 20% and 71% for 1978-1982 cases (N = 205), and 43% and 80% for 1983-1987 cases (N = 92). In the 1983-1987 era, the graft survival rates have been similar (p less than 0.1) for the three most common duct management techniques, 46% at 1 year for polymer injection (N = 281), 44% for intestinal drainage (N = 253), and 44% for bladder drainage (N = 297), as well as for whole (N = 364) versus segmental (N = 528) grafts (41% versus 45% at 1 yr) and whether the spleen was (N = 27) or was not (N = 865) included (32% versus 44% at 1 yr). A preservation time of less than 6 hours (N = 557) was associated with higher graft functional survival rates than preservation times of 6 to 12 hours (N= 173) and greater than 12 hours (N = 67), 47%, 39%, and 35%, respectively at 1 year, but only the less than 6 versus the 6 to 12 hour difference was significant (p less than 0.01).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis 55455.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Moudry
mesh_terms: D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D012042:Registries; D013154:Spleen / Q000637:transplantation