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Islet transplantation can be considered an alternative to pancreas transplantation in two cases: simultaneous islet-kidney transplantation in uremic diabetic patients previously submitted to kidney-pancreas transplantation, who eventually lost the function of the two grafts, and diabetic patients who received kidney transplantation alone.
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Secchi, A. (1997). Pancreas retransplantation or islet transplantation?. In: Retransplantation. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-38142-8_23
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