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Abstract

Introduction

Long-term studies strongly suggest that tight control of blood glucose can prevent the development and retard the progression of chronic complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus. In contrast to conventional insulin treatment, replacement of a patient’s islets of Langerhans either by pancreas organ transplantation or by isolated islet transplantation is the only treatment to achieve a constant normoglycemic state and avoiding hypoglycemic episodes, a typical adverse event of multiple daily insulin injections. However, the cost of this benefit is still the need for immunosuppressive treatment of the recipient with all its potential risks.

Materials and methods

Islet cell transplantation offers the advantage of being performed as a minimally invasive procedure in which islets can be perfused percutaneously into the liver via the portal vein. Between January 1990 and December 2004, 458 pancreatic islet transplants worldwide have been reported to the International Islet Transplant Registry (ITR) at our Third Medical Department, University of Giessen/Germany.

Results

Data analysis of islet cell transplants performed in the last 5 years (1999–2004) shows at 1 year after adult islet transplantation a patient survival rate of 97%, a functioning islet graft in 82% of the cases, whereas insulin independence was meanwhile achieved in 43% of the cases. However, using a novel protocol established by the Edmonton Center/Canada, the insulin independence rates have improved significantly reaching meanwhile a 50–80% level.

Conclusion

Finally, the concept of islet cell or stem cell transplantation is most attractive, as it offers many perspectives: islet cell availability could become unlimited and islet or stem cells my be transplanted without life-long immunosuppressive treatment of the recipient, just to mention two of them.

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This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, and Deutsche Diabetes-Gesellschaft. The authors are grateful to Andreas O. Schultz for data managing of the ITR, Birte Hussmann and Stefanie Fast for technical assistance, and Barbara Schultz for helping with the manuscript preparation.

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Bretzel, R.G., Jahr, H., Eckhard, M. et al. Islet cell transplantation today. Langenbecks Arch Surg 392, 239–253 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-007-0183-4

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