Pancreas transplants are an option but are limited in supply and require immunosuppressant drugs, increasing disease susceptibility and stress on insulin-producing cells.
O transplante de pâncreas é uma opção, mas a oferta é limitada e requer medicamentos imunossupressores, que aumentam a suscetibilidade a doenças e o estresse nas células produtoras de insulina.
| Front | Ways to replace pancreatic cells (transplants) |
|---|---|
| Back | pancreas transplant great but demand exceeds supply, also require immunosuppresent drugs to ensure acception (inc susceptibility to disease and inc metabolic demands on insulin-producing cells, exhausting its capacity to form insulin) so may be more risky than diabetes itself |
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