Success of new treatment for pancreatitis

Success of new treatment for pancreatitis

OSAKA, Japan - Toshinori Ito, professor at Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, holds a press conference in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2013. Doctors at Osaka University Hospital in July successfully removed a chronically inflamed pancreas from a pancreatitis patient before separating the organ's insulin-producing islets and transplanting them back into the patient, marking a new form of treatment, Ito said.

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