key: cord-1014332-c7en3nd5
authors: Woodside, Kenneth J.; Singh, Neeraj; Lentine, Krista L.; Pavlakis, Martha; Basu, Arpita; Cabeza Rivera, Franco H.; Kensinger, Clark D.; Parajuli, Sandesh; Sultan, Samuel; Tantisattamo, Ekamol; Parsons, Ronald F.; Cooper, Matthew
title: Approach to pancreas transplant during the COVID‐19 pandemic
date: 2020-12-20
journal: Clin Transplant
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.14177
sha: 6f839f9b634a05913aeaacfcb4aae4069e25044e
doc_id: 1014332
cord_uid: c7en3nd5

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To the Editor:

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of vital medical care, including transplantation-with another surge in progress. In March 2020, faced with potential shortages of ventilators, dialysis machines, and personal protective equipment, hospital systems drastically scaled back or halted vital activities-including new transplants-in effort to mobilize resources for anticipated or realized COVID-19 admissions. As for all solid organ transplant, 1,2 pancreas transplant has been impacted by the pandemic, but has received less attention. As of October 26, 2020, only 781 total pancreas transplants had been performed in the United States, 2 which is a drop of ~10% from the corresponding date last year ( Figure 1A ). 

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