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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Twelve patients have been cured of a life threatening complication of type one diabetes due to an innovative Scottish transplant programme.
Eighteen months on from the first operation, the Scottish National Pancreatic Islet Transplant Programme has carried out 18 islet cell infusions, and improved the lives of 12 patients.
The process involves islets extracted from a deceased donor?s pancreas being injected into the liver of patients with type one diabetes.
This has been shown to be an effective treatment for some people with type one diabetes who have problems recognising when their blood sugar becomes dangerously low. All of these patients are now able to recognise when their blood sugar level drops and rarely experience low levels.
http://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=41a5a42e-5adf-4863-99a4-e9966146a857
Eighteen months on from the first operation, the Scottish National Pancreatic Islet Transplant Programme has carried out 18 islet cell infusions, and improved the lives of 12 patients.
The process involves islets extracted from a deceased donor?s pancreas being injected into the liver of patients with type one diabetes.
This has been shown to be an effective treatment for some people with type one diabetes who have problems recognising when their blood sugar becomes dangerously low. All of these patients are now able to recognise when their blood sugar level drops and rarely experience low levels.
http://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=41a5a42e-5adf-4863-99a4-e9966146a857