Journal
CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 23, Issue -, Pages 54-57Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01011.x
Keywords
non-heart-beating donor; graft biopsy; glomerular basement membrane
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We report a case of type 1 diabetes mellitus who was successfully treated with simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplantation and both grafts survived for 16 yr. A 30-yr-old woman underwent SPK transplantation from a non-heart-beating donor in January 1992. She was treated with combined immunosuppressive therapy consisting of cyclosporine, azathioprine, methylprednisolone, and anti-lymphocyte globulin. Allograft kidney biopsy was performed 10 yr after transplantation to determine the cause of proteinuria, which revealed no recurrence of diabetic nephropathy, suggesting that long-term normalization of glycemic control achieved by successful pancreas transplantation can prevent recurrence of diabetic nephropathy in the kidney allograft.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available