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**Title:** Isolated Pancreas Transplantation.

**Agency:** Agency for Health Care Policy and Research/Center for Health Care Technology(Formerly, the Office of Health Technology Assessment).

**Contact:** Steven Hotta, M.D., Ph.D; Thomas V. Holohan, M.D., Director, CHCT.

**Status:** Technology Review: Published, 1995.

**Language:** English.

**Primary objective:** Assess the safety and effectiveness of isolated pancreas transplants in thetreatment of insulin dependent diabetics.

**Methods Used:** Review of clinical studies.

**Data Identification:** Published literature and information from professionals, professionalsocieties, and other Federal agencies.

**Study Selection:** Selected references from those retrieved by MEDLINE database search, usingterms: "transplantation," "pancreas," "diabetes," and "treatment."

**Data Extraction:** Over 200 references retrieved, most concerned with combined pancreas-kidneytransplantation. Small number of cases involving isolated pancreas transplantation included instudies reporting on combined organ transplantation. No patient selection criteria described.

**Key Results/Findings:** In progress.

**Conclusion:** None.

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