Mayo Clinic is utilizing a brand new weapon within the struggle towards diabetes-related kidney failure.
About 40 million individuals within the U.S. live with diabetes. Most are capable of handle the situation with treatment and life-style modifications.
But in some instances, diabetes can result in extra critical issues, together with continual kidney illness, even kidney failure, leaving sufferers with just one choice – a pancreas-kidney transplant.
The transplant has been carried out for many years, however now, surgeons at Mayo Clinic are performing the transplant robotically.
Steve Canzoneri shares his life-changing story of turning into Mayo’s first affected person to bear a robotic pancreas-kidney transplant.
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