The Go-To Place for Complex GI Diseases

In 2023, the Islet Autotransplant Research Program at the Medical School achieved a milestone by completing its 850th TPIAT procedure. Nearly 180 of these were performed on children aged 3 to 18. The program also conducted the world's 2nd pancreas-alone transplant for a child with Type 1 Diabetes suffering from severe insulin allergy. Islet transplant, a procedure involving harvesting and infusion of islets from the pancreas into the liver, is administered to patients undergoing TPIAT for chronic pancreatitis, and those with Type 1 Diabetes seeking alloislet transplant. View full story