why aren't more people having TP/ICT? - Donna

[Guest guest]

I am making an educated quess to answer your question

concering why TP / ICTs are not being offered....

And it is because , I think, that it is a relatively new

procedure..and is mainly being used to treat diabetes (using

cadaver islet cells) and that is still under study....and that chronic

pancreatitis is the " poor cousin " in that these are not the type of

patients that they want to recruit to clinical trials for all sorts of

reasons......also, not many surgeons do this and you know how

hard it is to get the medical profession to learn something new

and see the benefits of different applications........

I think though that this will be a good option in the future for

people with chronic pancreatitis as long as no weird outcomes

are reported by the diabetes group and the few CP patients that

have had this done......the journals seem to be cautiously

optimistic that this is a good procedure.

Laurie