Sources for Kidney Donation
For kidney transplant an organ is donated by either a living donor or the family of a deceased donor consents to donate their loved ones organ.
For pancreas transplant a deceased organ donor is giving either both the Kidney/Pancreas or the Pancreas alone can be transplanted after the recipient has already received a Living Donor Kidney, this is known as PAK (Pancreas After Kidney) transplant.
Surgery for a combined Kidney/Pancreas (K/P) or PAK (pancreas after kidney) can take six to eight hours. The incision for K/P or PAK is straight up and down the center of the abdomen; the Pancreas is connected to part of the intestine.
