Pancreas Transplants by Category

United States pancreas transplants by recipient category from 1988 through 2002 are shown in Figure 22. The majority of all transplant cases per year were SPK (about 79%), with PAK increasing significantly over time to about 14% per year and PTA increasing to about 6%.

Figure 22

Pancreas transplants outside the US reported to the IPTR between 1988 and 2002 are shown by recipient category in Figure 23. The vast majority of the cases were SPK (92%) similar to the US, but compared to US totals the proportion of PAK (5%) and PTA (3%) transplants was lower.

Figure 23