My understanding is the same as @LittleGreyCat.
I am curious though - as type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, why does the body not kill off the insulin producing cells in the new pancreas?
My understanding is the same as @LittleGreyCat.
I am curious though - as type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, why does the body not kill off the insulin producing cells in the new pancreas?
So who need it the most? T1 or T2!
Can the procedure done only for pancreas not kidney?
I understood the immune system suppressants held back my body from killing the foreign body. I guess someone who had a liver transplant would take something similar.The body would kill of the entire transplant if it could, as the immune system would rightly see it as a foreign invader.
That is why you are on immune system suppressants for the rest of your life, to stop your body killing it (and by extension, yourself).
Are you about to die because your pancreas has failed and no other therapy can reasonably prolong your life?
If not, you are not in line for a transplant because there is a critical shortage of donors for all organs and a long waiting list.
This is made even harder because the tissue type of the donor has to match yours.
In an ideal world with dead bodies strewn around just waiting for their organs to be harvested a healthy diabetic might be able to have a transplant.
I would still think long and hard about it, because transplant surgery is non-trivial and you are also at risk of infection for the rest of your life because you are having to suppress your immune system.
Surgical techniques make a transplant possible.
Morality in general makes sure that the truly needy are at the front of the queue.
I understood the immune system suppressants held back my body from killing the foreign body. I guess someone who had a liver transplant would take something similar.
I wondered whether the type 1 diabetes nasties in my body would also want to kill off the insulin producing cells as it did on my own pancreas. If not, why do we not prescribe immune system suppressants for people who are first diagnosed with type 1 and still in their honeymoon phases to stop their diabetes nasties killing off the remaining insulin producing cells?
Sorry.Okay then.
I just ask for more info