His name is Christophe, and he says he lives again like a person who does not have diabetes.
Until this simultaneous transplant last August, this winegrower living in the Rhône needed to be dialyzed every night for 3 years, and have insulin injections.
It is now finished dialysis, and maybe soon insulinif we are to believe the press release from the Edouard Herriot hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon (Source 1). Because the hospital’s transplant teams achieved a simultaneous kidney and pancreatic islet transplanttaken from the same donor, thanks to which “the patient is on the way to being permanently cured of his diabetes”.
Put an end to dialysis and lifelong insulin
This is therefore the first French simultaneous “kidney-pancreatic islet” transplant, which “opens up invaluable perspectives” for diabetics: “no more dialysis, no more diabetes for patients with type 1 diabetes and advanced renal failure”.
The medical team recalls that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease which is characterized by the progressive and inexorable destruction of the cells that produce insulin at the level of the pancreas, more precisely within the so-called islets of Langerhans. Renal failure is one of its many complications, which leads patients to dialysis and waiting for a kidney transplant.
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