South Australian experience with paediatric total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation for PRSS1-associated hereditary pancreatitis

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Paul Flynn and the Hospital Research Foundation, South Australia, who enabled funding of four of five TP-IAT procedures undertaken, along with the attendance of international experts to help with the islet isolation process. We also thank Melena Bellin (University of Minnesota), Ashley Dennison (University of Leicester), Greg Szot (University of California, San Francisco) and Appakalai Balamurugan (University of Louisville) for their contributing expertise. We also acknowledge the clinicians involved in the patients' care during and following the procedures, including from the islet transplant and interventional radiology services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital; the gastroenterology, endocrinology and paediatric intensive care units at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide; and the islet transplantation laboratory at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne.