Outcomes From Pancreatic Transplantation in Donation After Cardiac Death

Pancreas transplantation remains the gold standard for treatment for type I diabetes providing an insulin-independent, normoglycemic state. Increasingly, donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are used in view of the organ donor shortage. We aimed to systematically review recipient outcomes from DCD donors and where possible compared these with donor after brain death (DBD) donors.We searched the databases MEDLINE via PubMed, EMBASE, and The...