Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Simultaneous pancreatic kidney transplantation (SPK) has become the therapy of choice in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and end stage diabetic nephropathy.Methods: An analysis was performed of type 1 diabetic patients with end stage diabetic nephropathy who received treatment with SPK between 2001–2011 in the South West of Ireland, population 663,176 with a prevalence of type 1 DM in this region estimated to be 0.3%. Data ...