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A randomized study of combined kidney-pancreas transplantation was performed on 30 insulin-dependent diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease to compare the consequences of pancreas transplantation with...
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Pancreas and islet transplantation in the treatment of type I diabetes
Diabetes mellitus is a growing worldwide health problem, often leading to medical and psychosocial disasters such as blindness, amputations, coronary artery disease, stroke and kidney failure. Although the pos...
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Immunosuppression in composite tissue transplantation
Composite tissue allografts (CTA) are defined as neurovascularized allografts of non vital tissues which include structural, functional and aesthetic units of intertegumentary and musculoskeletal elements, e.g...
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Xenotransplantation of microencapsulated pancreatic islets contained in a vascular prosthesis: preliminary results
Porcine and human pancreatic islets were microencapsulated in an alginate-polylysine biomembrane and put in a chamber of a new vascular prosthesis composed of an inner tubing of Dacron mesh and an outer tubing...
