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SUBMITTER: Williams J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281363 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Williams Jack J Jacus Nicholas N Kavalackal Kevin K Danielson Kirstie K KK Monson Rebecca S RS Wang Yong Y Oberholzer Jose J
Islets 20180719 4
Islet cell transplantation is a promising functional cure for type 1 diabetes; however, maintaining long-term islet graft function and insulin independence is difficult to achieve. In this short report we present a patient with situs inversus, who at the time of islet transplantation had a 26-year history of type 1 diabetes, complicated by hypoglycemic unawareness and severe hypoglycemic events. After a single allogeneic islet transplant of a low islet mass, and despite developing de novo anti-i ...[more]