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Clinical pancreas transplantation, began at Minnesota in 1966, now encompasses a third of a century. Transplantation of endocrine tissue (pancreatic islet beta cells) is the only treatment that can induce insulin independence for Type I diabetic patients. To date, transplantation of islets within an immediately vascularized graft (pancreas) has been much more successful than as a free cellular graft.
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Najarian, J.S. (2002). Pancreas Transplantation: Does it Have a Future?. In: Friedman, E.A., L’Esperance, F.A. (eds) Diabetic Renal-Retinal Syndrome. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0614-9_17
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