Early increase of retinal arterial and venous blood flow velocities at color doppler imaging in brittle type 1 diabetes after islet transplant alone

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1274-1277

  Venturini, Massimo ^a,b   Fiorina, Paolo ^a,b   Maffi, Paola ^a,b   Losio, Claudio ^a,b   Vergani, Andrea ^a,b   Secchi, Antonio ^a,b   Del Maschio, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Doppler imaging; Islet transplantation; Type 1 diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; DACLIZUMAB; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MALE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA VEIN; STUDENT T TEST; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33744457936     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000208631.63235.6a     Document Type: Article

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