Schaapherder A F, van Oosterhout E C, Bode P J, van der Woude F J, Lemkes H H, Gooszen H G
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands.
Clin Transplant. 1993 Feb;7(1 part 1):37-42.
Vascular thrombosis following pancreas transplantation is one of the main causes of early graft loss. Successful thrombectomy after pancreatic graft thrombosis has not been reported yet. A patient with arterial graft thrombosis in whom the graft survived after thrombectomy is described. Different varieties of pancreatic graft thrombosis are discussed.