title: Pancreas transplant for diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Pancreas transplant is an option for patients with type 1 diabetes and for some patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced diabetic kidney disease. The procedure has a high success rate, and performing it earlier in the course of diabetes could help prevent or reverse the long-term complications of diabetes.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico VA Healthcare System, Presbyterian Hospital, and University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM, USA.|Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
authors.forename: Hannah R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.|Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Betul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hatipoglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.|Director of Pancreas Transplantation, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. E-mail: krishnv@ccf.org.
authors.forename: Venkatesh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Krishnamurthi
mesh_terms: D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome