Cooperative Study of the Spanish Pancreas Transplant Group (GETP): Surgical Complications.

Unlabelled: Technical failure in pancreas transplant has been the main cause of the loss of grafts. In the last few years, the number of complications has reduced, and therefore the proportion of this problem.

Objectives: The Spanish Pancreas Transplant Group wanted to analyze the current situation with regard to surgical complications and their severity.

Quality of life in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients.

Background: Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK Tx) allows dialysis and insulin therapy to be discontinued and improves the complications of diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1). This study measure quality of life (QoL) in SPK transplant recipients and determine if there are differences in QoL between these patients and those with DM1 in renal replacement therapy (RRT).

Methods: Short Form Health Survey 36-Item (SF-36) was administered to 69 SPK transplant recipients and 34 patients with DM1 under RRT.