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Simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation is the treatment of choice for type 1 diabetics with end-stage renal disease. Recently patients with type 2 diabetes have been considered for transplantation. Despite that the patient and graft survival rates have improved over the past years, it continues to be a procedure with high surgical complication rates. We herein report a case of a pancreatic graft with a duodenal complication rescued using a total duodenectomy, a procedure that is seldom used. A 57-year-old type 2 diabetic underwent a SPK transplantation with systemic-enteric drainage. He was converted to a Roux en Y at day 7 for a small duodenal fistula without peritonitis. At day 13, with good graft function, he presented with gastrointestinal and abdominal bleeding. At laparotomy he had a congestive duodenum with intraluminal bleeding and an anastomotic fistula. We performed a total duodenectomy with enteric drainage. The patient was discharged home on day 39 with a pancreatic fistula on intramuscular Octretotide that lasted for 3 months. He was never readmitted and has good pancreas and kidney function at 16 months of follow-up. We think this is an option to rescue a pancreas graft with duodenal complications in selected cases.

A computer aided system (SADCOM: Sistema de Apoyo Didactico Computarizado) to teach power plant principles of operation to new plant operators is described. SADCOM usex text, graphics, colors and animation to illustrate the basic processes of a power plant. The presentations are controlled by the instructor who explains how the different systems, equipment and processes work. SADCOM teaches the following topics: tube and instrumentation diagrams, operation procedures, failure analysis, and generation unit thermal balances where mass, pressures and temperatures can be modified to see how they affect the efficiency of the unit.