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Thai doctors carry out the country’s first successful pancreas transplant
BANGKOK, Dec 23 (TNA) - Thai doctors have successfully carried out a pancreas transplant for the first time in the Kingdom.
Clinical Professor Dr Teerawat Kulthanant, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, and the team of the Thai surgeons announced the success at a press conference on Thursday (Dec 23).
Dr. Yongyuth Siriwathana-aksorn, head of the liver surgery unit who led the successful transplant, identified the Thai patient as Somnuek Pisaipan, saying that the 47-year-old patient had suffered from insulin-dependent diabetes since his 20 years of age and the man needed 2-4 insulin injections daily, and his diabetes also caused chronic renal failure; so, he needed dialysis twice a week.
In 2007, the man underwent a kidney transplant, thanks to a donor. However, he still needed insulin injections daily to control his sugar levels. The three-hour surgery for the pancreas transplant then took place on October 29 this year--after he received the organ from a donor. The new pancreas was attached to his blood vessels and his small intestine near the left side of his pelvis.
The patient's new pancreas started to produce insulin only one day after the transplant. He has not developed any complications over the past two months and his blood sugar has been at a normal level without having to depend on any insulin injection or a sugar reduction drug.
The world's first successful pancreas transplant was recorded in 1966. As such transplants are subject to many sensitive factors, patients with successful pancreas transplants have numbered only some 20,000 worldwide so far.(TNA)
Clinical Professor Dr Teerawat Kulthanant, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, and the team of the Thai surgeons announced the success at a press conference on Thursday (Dec 23).
Dr. Yongyuth Siriwathana-aksorn, head of the liver surgery unit who led the successful transplant, identified the Thai patient as Somnuek Pisaipan, saying that the 47-year-old patient had suffered from insulin-dependent diabetes since his 20 years of age and the man needed 2-4 insulin injections daily, and his diabetes also caused chronic renal failure; so, he needed dialysis twice a week.
In 2007, the man underwent a kidney transplant, thanks to a donor. However, he still needed insulin injections daily to control his sugar levels. The three-hour surgery for the pancreas transplant then took place on October 29 this year--after he received the organ from a donor. The new pancreas was attached to his blood vessels and his small intestine near the left side of his pelvis.
The patient's new pancreas started to produce insulin only one day after the transplant. He has not developed any complications over the past two months and his blood sugar has been at a normal level without having to depend on any insulin injection or a sugar reduction drug.
The world's first successful pancreas transplant was recorded in 1966. As such transplants are subject to many sensitive factors, patients with successful pancreas transplants have numbered only some 20,000 worldwide so far.(TNA)
