Collagenase solution is injected into the pancreatic duct which runs through the head, body and tail of the pancreas.

This is in the pulmonary artery.

It's the pulmonary artery and it is de oxygenated.

Insulin is produced in the Pancreas, what happens if the pancreas is not producing insulin properly? so.. no insulin.

Up into the ascending aorta.

This right over here is called the left coronary artery or LCA.

We pump into the aorta.

My carotid artery had ruptured.

like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

And then, when the heart is ready to pump it back out, it goes into this artery, and the name of it is the aorta.

Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

The only real problem with the ascending aorta in people with Marfan syndrome is that it lacks some tensile strength.

There's a big clot in the middle of the artery.

Cause coronary thrombosis, acute.

This artery is completed by branches of the left colic which is a branch of the inferior mesenteric artery.

Anatomy Outside the capsule, there are two poles The vascular pole is the side with the afferent arteriole and efferent arteriole.

So let's say this is an artery and the blood is flowing in that direction... and let's say this right here is an artery.

You can have these plaques build up along the walls of the artery.

And this is of course the aorta. This is my aorta.

This is actually the artery that goes from your neck to your brain.

It missed the main artery, I think.

I didn't even know what a pancreas was!

Why are we so bad at detecting pancreatic cancer?

I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common.

So if a 15 year old who didn't even know what a pancreas was could find a new way to detect pancreatic cancer just imagine what you could do.

The pulse commonly taken is from the radial artery at the wrist.

And blood is actually going through the artery, that way.

So this blood that your hepatic artery.

Using the Internet, I found a variety of statistics on pancreatic cancer, and what I had found shocked me.

We used quantitative arteriography, showing the narrowing.

It would actually go and block the artery further downstream and be embolism.

This is an artery, a non pulmonary artery and it is oxygenated.

Right it's gonna have to go away from the heart. So that's the aorta.

I don't believe it hit a big artery. It may have pierced the gut.

I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

And I should mention that I have pancreatic cancer, and I'd like you to please be quick about this.

Sometimes the pulse cannot be taken at the wrist and is taken at the elbow (brachial artery), at the neck against the carotid artery (carotid pulse), behind the knee (popliteal artery), or in the foot dorsalis pedis or posterior tibial arteries.

So if you've heard of the aorta, this is the artery that people are talking about.

If the plack bursts, it causes a blood clot that blocks the artery

So now we're gonna work our way down a bit, we talked about the thyroid gland making the thyroid hormones, and when you get to the pancreas, which is that yellow structure right in the middle, inside of the pancreas there are small islands called the islets of Langerhans, and the islets within the pancreas make endocrine hormones, like insulin and glucagon,

Approximately 20 of patients have a relapse of pain during acute pancreatitis.

The most common cause of death in acute pancreatitis is secondary infection.

If insulin resistance exists, more insulin needs to be secreted by the pancreas.

I then shifted my focus to actually detecting that protein, and thus, pancreatic cancer.