Singapore has recorded its first simultaneous pancreas and kidney
transplant. The surgery was performed on 29-year-old Singaporean male by a team
of surgeons from the National University Hospital (NUH) and Singapore General
Hospital (SGH) last month.
The patient was suffering from
Type 1 diabetes and renal failure and had been on insulin for over 15 years. He
had also been on dialysis for over a year and had been on the waiting lists for
both pancreas and kidney transplants since August last year.
The five-and-a-half hour surgery
was led by Associate Professor Krishnakumar Madhavan, Director of NUH’s Adult
Liver and Pancreas Transplantation Programme, and performed together with Dr
Victor Lee, Director, Pancreas Transplant and Consultant, Department of General
Surgery, SGH; and Dr Tiong Ho Yee, Director, Kidney Surgery and
Transplantation, NUH.
The Straits Times / Asia News
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