Over 500 solitary pancreas transplants in nonuremic patients with brittle diabetes mellitus

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-47

  Gruessner, Rainer W G ^a   Sutherland, David E R ^b   Kandaswamy, Raja ^b   Gruessner, Angelika C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle diabetes mellitus; Hypoglycemic unawareness; Solitary pancreas transplant

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEPTICEMIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYCLOSPORINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38149100450     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000296820.46978.3f     Document Type: Article

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