Laparoscopic Biopsies in Pancreas Transplantation.

As there is no precise laboratory test or imaging study for detection of pancreas allograft rejection, there is increasing interest in obtaining pancreas tissue for diagnosis. Pancreas allograft biopsies are most commonly performed percutaneously, transcystoscopically, or endoscopically, yet pancreas transplant surgeons often lack the skills to perform these types of biopsies. We have performed 160 laparoscopic pancreas biopsies in 95 patients.

Case report: pancreas graft with a duodenal complication rescued using total duodenectomy.

Simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation is the treatment of choice for type 1 diabetics with end-stage renal disease. Recently patients with type 2 diabetes have been considered for transplantation. Despite that the patient and graft survival rates have improved over the past years, it continues to be a procedure with high surgical complication rates.

[Small bowel intussusception and Vanek's tumor in an elderly woman].

Inflammatory fibroid polyps are non-frequent benign lesions, described by Vanek in 1949, originated in the sub mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. They have an uncertain origin and they are formed of fibroblastic and mesenchymal proliferations with an important eosinophilic proportion. Depending on where are they localized, could present different type of symptoms.