Pancreas transplants are performed for a variety of reasons, including curing type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas has damaged beta cells and is unable to produce enough, if any, insulin. Insulin is the glucose that muscles and tissues in the body use for fuel. Insulin helps in moving this glucose, or sugar, from the blood into cells that can use it for energy. If an adequate level of insulin is unavailable, the glucose remains in the blood, causing extreme levels of blood sugar levels.

In order to function, type 1 diabetics routinely have to inject themselves with insulin. When doctors remove their defective pancreas and replace it with a healthy donor pancreas, insulin production commences and patients are able to stop using manufactured insulin to maintain their normal blood glucose levels after pancreas transplant for diabetics.

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