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Islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes results are still improving, and actually Insulin-independence with normal HbA1c is obtained in 50% of patients after 5 years, 80% of c-peptide positive patients. In addition to the need of 2 or 3 surgical or radiological interventions to inject islets, an immunosuppressive regimen is needed, which can be deleterious, particularly on kidneys. Moreover, long term beneficial effects of islet transplantation on stabilization or prevention of macro and micro vascular complications of diabetes has not been evaluated. In a preliminary work, it was observed a stabilisation or improvement of microvascular complications when compared to pre-transplant data. The aim of this study is to compare the evolution of diabetes complications, especially nephrologic, 10 years after islet transplantation and to compare it to patients with a brittle diabetes, 10 years after evaluation for islet transplantation, finally not performed. This case-control study will evaluate nephrologic parameters (creatinine, MDRD creatinine clearance, microalbuminuria, proteinuria) and other micro and macro-vascular complications of type 1 diabetes) before islet transplantation and 10 years after the transplantation or after the first evaluation in patients who finally did not underwent islet transplantation for various non nephrologic reasons
The purpose of this study is to provide patients who have received at least one islet transplant as a previous participant in a Clinical Islet Transplantation Consortium (CIT) clinical trial with maintenance immunosuppressive medications and to collect information about the safety of the medications and islet function.
Islets of Langerhans intended for clinical transplantation are labelled with a radioactive tracer. The tracer is retained in viable cells of the transplant. At infusion (transplantation) of the islets into the portal vein the tracer can be followed for two hours with positron emission tomography (PET). Imaging and calculations can give estimates of the proportion of surveying islets and the rate of early destruction. Also the distribution of the islets into the liver can be viewed.