Pancreas Transplantation at the University of Minnesota: 1966–2005

The world’s first clinical pancreas transplant was done simultaneously with a kidney graft on December 16, 1966 to treat a uremic diabetic patient at the University of Minnesota Hospital (1). From then through 2005, more than 24,000 pancreases have been transplanted (2); of these, nearly 8% have been done at the University of Minnesota (Fig. 1).