Pancreas transplantation.

The data on vascularized pancreas transplant cases reported to the old American College of Surgeons/National Institutes of Health Organ Transplant Registry from December 17, 1966, through December 31, 1984, are summarized in this article. Also described is the experience at the University of Minnesota, where more than one fifth of the transplants have been performed. The authors conclude that pancreas transplantation is now an effective treatment for human diabetes.