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New Pancreas in Woman’s Arm

November 11, 2008 by Cherie Burbach  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

New Pancreas in Woman’s Arm

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Check out this facinating discovery from Diabetes Health:
A 55-year-old woman whose pancreas was removed due to chronic pancreatitis is not without a pancreas, thanks to the ingenuity of surgeons at the Methodist Hospital in Houston. After they removed her pancreas, they extracted its islet cells and implanted them into her left forearm, creating what they call a functioning pancreas in her arm. (Transplanted islet cells are usually injected into the liver, but in this case the patient’s liver had damage that precluded its use.) Apparently the patient is recovering handily and should be armed with insulin …read more


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