Pancreas transplantation.
Clinical pancreas transplantation is a procedure being applied with increasing effectiveness for the treatment of diabetes. The authors examine, through the Pancreas Transplant Registry, all known cases of islet transplantation since 1970 and all pancreas transplantation since 1977 and then summarize their own work on pancreas transplants at the University of Minnesota.
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000628:therapy; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D016381:Islets of Langerhans Transplantation; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D009926:Organ Preservation; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States