Open AccessEarly Pancreas Graft Failure Is Associated With Inferior Late Clinical Outcomes After Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
Author(s) -
Silas P. Norman,
Mallika Kommareddi,
Akinlolu Ojo,
Fu L. Luan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e31822dc36b
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , pancreas , pancreas transplantation , kidney , proportional hazards model , transplantation , surgery , urology , kidney transplantation , gastroenterology , confidence interval
Early pancreas graft failure after simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplantation is common. We studied the impact of early pancreas graft failure on long-term kidney and patient survival.