Although islet transplantation is an option for patients with type 1 diabetes, even those who become insulin-independent after engraftment have islet-graft function that is estimated to be less than ...

We report on a patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus, diagnosed at 16 years of age, in whom widespread amyloid deposits developed many years later in transplanted human islets. The islets were ...

Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas. Without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant islets ...