Follow-up of secondary diabetic complications after pancreas transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-110

  Boggi, Ugo ^a   Rosati, Carlo Maria ^a   Marchetti, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

chronic complications of diabetes; diabetes mellitus; macrovascular complications; microvascular complications; pancreas transplantation

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84872928635     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32835c28c5     Document Type: Review

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