After the transplant you will be sent to the recovery room and will be monitored there until the anesthesia wears off. Once the breathing tube is removed, you will be transferred to the ICU for several days, where the transplant team will monitor your status very carefully. During your stay on this unit, your laboratory studies, medications, nutritional status and exercise tolerance will be monitored.
After you have stabilized, you will then be transferred to the MedSurg floor where you will stay another few days. As soon as you are able, discharge instructions will begin to prepare you for going home. The entire length of stay in the hospital is approximately 7-10 days.
Potential complications of the transplant procedure include bleeding and infection, and as with any transplant, poor healing of the suture line between the bladder and the duodenum. An infrequent complication involves thrombosis (clotting) of the blood vessels of the pancreas. To minimize this risk, the patient may be given low doses of a blood thinning medication after the transplant.
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