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Does the Clinical Islet Program perform living donor islet transplantation?

April 26, 2017clinical donor islet Living perform program transplantation

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Does the Clinical Islet Program perform living donor islet transplantation?

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The Clinical Islet Transplant does not have an active program established in Edmonton. There are risks to donors that must be considered: operative mortality, risk of development of diabetes in the donor, risk of insufficient yield of islets following isolation procedure.