For the first time in France, a patient is transplanted with both a kidney and pancreas cells

A wine grower in Beaujolais, Christophe injected himself with insulin several times a day for twenty years, before his type 1 diabetes began to cause complications: leg pain, eye damage, then kidney failure. To compensate for his failing kidneys, Christophe then underwent three years of dialysis while waiting for a transplant. Heavy and restrictive treatment on a daily basis: « I had to dialyze myself every night. It’s very long, so even in summer you have to go to bed at 9:30 p.m. Sometimes the machine wakes you up at two in the morning, and if you go on weekends or on vacation, you have to be sure to have the equipment and products available »he described during a press conference organized by the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL).

In August 2024, he was finally offered a compatible graft. But ultimately it was two transplants from which the fifty-year-old benefited…