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The success rate and the frequency of pancreas transplants have increased in recent years. Pancreas transplantation establishes a neuglycemic, insulin-inde-pendant state, and the potential to favorably influence the evolution of secondary complications of diabetes involving the eyes, nerves, and kidneys has been shown. Failure of a pancreas transplant is not an immediate life threatening problem, nevertheless the original course of diabetes is resumed. Thus justifications of pancreas retransplantation will be herein discussed in examining three steps: efficacy justification, economical justification, ethical justification.
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Cuzin, B., Benrais, N., Lefrançois, N., Dawahra, M., Martin, X., Dubernard, J.M. (1997). Should we retransplant pancreas?. In: Retransplantation. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-38142-8_30
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