I’m hoping this is something someone here can explain simply.
When someone’s heart, liver, or kidneys give up, we can do a transplant of the relevant organ, using either a living tissue donor or a deceased one. From my understanding (please correct me if I’m wrong), in most cases, type 1 diabetes stems from or correlates with a non functioning pancreas. So why can’t we do pancreas transplants for patients with T1D to either cure the disease or improve those patients’ quality of life?
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Pancreas transplants are a thing, [Johns Hopkins article](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/pancreas-transplant ). Finding organs is always a problem, and there is a much cheaper solution, insulin injections, so the procedure is much less common.
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