and history of pancreatic transplantation.- 1. Modern concepts of diabetes and its pathogenesis.- 2. Experimental pancreas transplantation: a survey of relevant issues.- Commentary by L.H. Toledo-Pereyra.- 3. Indication of combined pancreas and kidney transplantation.- 4. Indication for pancreas transplantation alone.- 5. Surgical techniques and complications.- Commentary by D.E.R. Sutherland.- Commentary by R. Schlumpf and F. Largiadèr.- 6. Organ preservation.- Commentary by P.J. Garvin.- Commentary by F.O. Belzer and J.H. Southard.- 7. Pre-, per- and post-operative care of the pancreas transplantation recipient.- 8. Immunosuppression for pancreas transplant recipients.- Commentary by D.E.R. Sutherland.- 9. The diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic rejection.- Commentary by D.E.R. Sutherland.- 10. Pathology of pancreas grafts.- 11. Endocrine function of the pancreatic graft.- 12. Exocrine function of the pancreas graft.- 13. Effect of pancreas transplantation on secondary complications of diabetes.- 14. Pancreas transplant registry.- 15. Pancreas transplant experience of individual institutions University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A..- University of Barcelona, Department of Surgery, Barcelona, Spain.- University of Birmingham, Queen Elisabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K..- University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium.- University of Cambridge Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, U.K..- University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A..- Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A..- University of Genoa, Transplant Unit, Genoa, Italy.- Sahlgren's Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.- University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria.- University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A..- Hôpital Edouard Herriot, University of Lyon I, Lyon, France.- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A..- University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, F.R.G..- National Hospital, Oslo, Norway.- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A..- Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A..- Huddinge Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.- University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.- 16. Islet transplantation: a review of the objective, the concepts, the problems, the progress and the future..- 17. The implantable artificial pancreas.- 18. Perspectives in pancreatic transplantation.- Index of subjects.