MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'diabetic transplant'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:30:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464202&cid=t_245120_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2Fqq5uTjo4loM%2F People with diabetes can develop kidney damage, in which they must have a transplant from a donor. But research suggests that having a kidney and pancreas transplant may be the best bet. A double transplant “offers the chance of curing not only the kidney disease but also the underlying diabetes.” However, it’s very difficult to get a pancreas transplant, since it requires a donation from a recently deceased individual. Research concluded, however, that “after 7 years, survival rates of patients given a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant was 88.6 percent, significantly higher than the 80.0 percent with a living-donor kidney transplant.” The survival rate is even lower when the kidney comes from a deceased donor. While this information is helpful, I&#8217... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464202 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:59 +0100 2464202