[Results of transplantation of pancreatic islet cell cultures to patients with diabetes mellitus].

Altogether 110 intramuscular pancreatic islet cell (PIC) culture transplantations were performed in diabetes mellitus patients from April 1981 to May 1984 at the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, USSR Ministry of Health: 65 allotransplantations of human fetal PIC and 45 xenotransplantations fo swine fetal PIC. Immunosuppressive therapy was not employed. The paper is concerned with an analysis of a therapeutic effect of the IC cell cull culture transplantation on 30 patients who were followed-up for not less than 1 year after operation. A pronounced and long-term antidiabetic effect was observed in wost of the recepients subjected to the intramuscular human fetal PIC culture transplantation: demand in exogenous insulin decreased, a durable stabilization of a course of disease in patients with labile diabetes mellitus was observed, and in patients with such diabetic complications as polyneuropathy, retinopathy and glomerulosclerosis certain regress of these complications was observed. As to the results of the intramuscular swine fetal PIC culture xenotransplantation the authors note that xenogenic transplantation as compared with IC culture allotransplantation possesses a less noticeable offect on diabetes mellitus complications.