UC’s Pancreatitis Cure May Cause Diabetes but Worth It

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

As part of chronic pancreatitis treatment, the doctors at the University of Cincinnati’s Pancreatic Disease Center has offfered the surgical solution to remove the pancreas to harvest islet cells from the organ, and then re-implanted the cells into his body to help manufacture insulin. The hospital has completed around 100 such treatment [...]