Transplants

Living Cell Technologies Limited announced it has published evidence outlining the survival and identification of live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient 10 years after receiving a pig islet cell transplant.

Six per cent of patients with a BMI of more than 30 died in the first year after transplant, compared with three per cent of patients with a BMI of less than 30.

The hope for a cure fails: Two years after receiving transplants of insulin-producing beta islet cells, only five of 36 patients with type 1 diabetes remained free of the need for insulin injections.

Washington University researchers have developed a potential cure for Type 2 diabetes.

According to new research presented at ADA, after more than half a century of living with type 1 diabetes, a significant number of patients appear to have residual beta-islet cell function.

Transplanting pig islet cells cannot come with a lot of immunosuppression, it must be a very safe treatment.

In certain patients with diabetes-related kidney disease, performing a transplant before the need for dialysis arises seems to be advantageous.

Many have gone years without any insulin injections or immunosuppressant drugs.

Encapsulating islets cells with polyethylene glycol — may soon obviate the need for immunosuppression in islet cell transplantation.

How many times do your patients ask you “is there a diabetes heredity” or “am I going to pass on the diabetes genes to my kids”. What do you tell them? Yes, No, or Maybe? What about all that stuff that says Type 1 is an autoimmune disease, does that …