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Do patients have to have had diabetes since childhood to qualify for a pancreas transplant?

April 26, 2017childhood Diabetes pancreas Patients qualify transplant

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Do patients have to have had diabetes since childhood to qualify for a pancreas transplant?

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Typically Type 1 diabetes is diagnosed in childhood or early adolescence so it is likely that patients will have had diabetes since childhood, although not a requirement.