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Fascinating BBC programme on pancreas surgery

Ledzeptt

Ledzeptt

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Type of diabetes
Type 3c
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Liquorice and aniseed (especially the tracer I have to drink in hospital before a CT scan - yuk!)
I highly recommend you watch this amazing TV programme on BBC iplayer, if you have a licence:

“Surgeons: at the edge of life Series 7, Ep 1 “A lot to lose”” as it focuses on hepatitis-biliary surgeon Rahman Ravindran and his team in Edinburgh with a young patient suffering from chronic pancreatitis. The (notably graphic) surgery involves removing the pancreas, spleen and duodenum to then transplant the islets cells back and avoid (T3c? although referred as brittle in the programme) diabetes.

It was amazing to see pancreas surgery in detail and the “life and death” decisions surgeons have to face in the moment.

I deliberately haven’t given the patient’s details/symptoms, but I think many of us in the T3c sub-forum will relate. I will admit to shedding a few tears (you’ll see what I mean).
 
Ledzeptt said:
I highly recommend you watch this amazing TV programme on BBC iplayer, if you have a licence:

“Surgeons: at the edge of life Series 7, Ep 1 “A lot to lose”” as it focuses on hepatitis-biliary surgeon Rahman Ravindran and his team in Edinburgh with a young patient suffering from chronic pancreatitis. The (notably graphic) surgery involves removing the pancreas, spleen and duodenum to then transplant the islets cells back and avoid (T3c? although referred as brittle in the programme) diabetes.

It was amazing to see pancreas surgery in detail and the “life and death” decisions surgeons have to face in the moment.

I deliberately haven’t given the patient’s details/symptoms, but I think many of us in the T3c sub-forum will relate. I will admit to shedding a few tears (you’ll see what I mean).
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The pancreas is one of the hardest organs to deal with in the human body. One surgeon said to me "it's like handling snot" and another one said "Pancreases get angry very easily and are risky to deal with, both in biopsies and transplants". So I take my hat off to the surgeons.
 
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