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MUSC Digestive Disease Center: Gastrointestinal Surgery

Islet Cell Transplant Program
Celebrates Major Milestone

Dr. David Adams performing a G.I. surgical procedure at MUSC.
Dr. David Adams (right) performing
a G.I. surgical procedure at MUSC.

MUSC's Islet Cell Transplant program is celebrating a new milestone with its achievement of one hundred islet cell transplant procedures. In the period from March 2009 (when the program began) to September 2012, one hundred chronic pancreatitis patients have undergone a total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT). This has helped make the MUSC Pancreas Surgery Program of Excellence one of the most experienced and successful islet cell transplant centers in the United States. Read more

P. Johnstone Maxwell IV, MD FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery

portrait of Dr. P. Johnstone Maxwell IV
Dr. P. Johnstone Maxwell IV

Dr. P. Johnstone Maxwell IV, who joined our faculty in 2011, completed his medical education here at MUSC in 2000. His clinical interests include surgery for both benign and malignant diseases of the colon and rectum, anorectal disease, inflammatory bowel disease, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy. View faculty list

Feature Video Archive

Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Cell
Autotransplantation: A Mother's Experience

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Referrals to the Digestive Disease Center can be made through MEDULINE, a toll-free, 24-hour physician consultation telephone line at 1-800-922-5250, or through the DDC's referral hotline. To reach the referral hotline directly, call (843) 792-6982 between 8:00AM and 4:30PM EST, Monday to Friday.

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Page last updated 05/21/2013.
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