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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Thousands of Scots with *diabetes could potentially *benefit from a pioneering transplant to improve control of their illness and give them back their independence, *experts have said.
Dr Shareen Forbes, head of Scotland?s Islet Transplantation Programme, said as many as 3,000 people with diabetes in Scotland may be helped by an infusion of cells from a donor pancreas to help them produce insulin again.
In the past two years the centre has carried out more procedures than any of the other six in the UK which provide the transplants.
So far 23 transplants have been carried out in Scotland in 15 patients since the first procedure in February 2011.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/diabetes-transplant-jab-passes-road-test-1-3000889
Dr Shareen Forbes, head of Scotland?s Islet Transplantation Programme, said as many as 3,000 people with diabetes in Scotland may be helped by an infusion of cells from a donor pancreas to help them produce insulin again.
In the past two years the centre has carried out more procedures than any of the other six in the UK which provide the transplants.
So far 23 transplants have been carried out in Scotland in 15 patients since the first procedure in February 2011.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/diabetes-transplant-jab-passes-road-test-1-3000889