(Source: WPTV News, 14 April 2011)
It's Trahnel Mays' job to make sure everything is set and ready to go for surgery. She's a transplant tech -- and ironically -- she is one of the first people in the United States to receive an islet cell transplant to cure her type-one diabetes. The 43-year-old has been dealing with diabetes since she was 13. Before her insulin pump, Trahnel was giving herself five shots a day.
Ohio State University transplant surgeon Amer Rajab sees the sickest of the sick. Their only option: a pancreas transplant. Trahnel is part of new research that is transplanting only the insulin-making islet cells. During a nine-hour process, surgeons dissect a donor pancreas, separate, purify and test the islet cells. Read more
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