title: Pancreatic islet transplantation.
abstract: This article gives a short description of the status of islet transplantation in clinical practice today. Islet transplantation is still experimental and the results in humans are poor compared to the results of organ transplantation in general. Collaboration in the EU supported multinational study "Treatment of diabetes by islet cell transplantation" is reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Salmela
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016381:Islets of Langerhans Transplantation