Open AccessPortal Venous and Enteric Exocrine Drainage Versus Systemic Venous and Bladder Exocrine Drainage of Pancreas Grafts
Author(s) -
Mark S. Cattral,
David Bigam,
Alan W. Hemming,
André C. Carpentier,
Paul D. Greig,
Elizabeth C. Wright,
Elizabeth A. Cole,
D. Donat,
Gary F. Lewis
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-200011000-00011
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , pancreas transplantation , transplantation , pancreas , gastroenterology , creatinine , urinary system , incidence (geometry) , kidney transplantation , parenteral nutrition , physics , optics
To test the hypothesis that pancreas transplantation using the more physiologic method of portal venous-enteric (PE) drainage could be performed without compromising patient and graft outcome, compared with the standard method of systemic venous-bladder (SB) drainage.