Causa Et Effectus
Causa Et Effectus
Unicorn: The National Animal Of Scotland
Planet Mercury
Memory
07/04/2025
VMMC & Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi
WORLD HEALTH DAY
Organs That Can Be Transplanted
University Of Minnesota
In 1974 David Sutherland, a surgical resident at the University of Minnesota, began the world’s first clinical transplants of the pancreatic insulin-producing groups of cells known as islets of Langerhans.
In 1979, as an assistant professor of surgery, he performed the first living-donor partial pancreas transplant.
The next year, he, John Najarian, and colleagues demonstrated that the full-blown diabetes that followed pancreatectomy (to cure chronic pancreatitis) could sometimes be prevented or partially ameliorated by isolating islets from the removed organ and infusing them back into the patients. Sutherland went on to oversee thousands of pancreas transplants and islet autotransplants at the University of Minnesota, where he headed the world’s oldest and largest pancreas transplant program.
Islet Transplantation: University Of Minnesota
Islet Cell Transplant
Pancreas