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We were unable to evaluate the effect of HIV infection, chronic renal disease, and immunosuppressive therapy due to small number of patients with these co-morbidities.
We also believe the islet transplant risk-benefit ratio is favorable for those with both T1DM and kidney failure who are listed for a life-preserving kidney transplant; such patients will have to take immunosuppressive agents after transplant to preserve the kidney allograft function, so the islets can be added without too much additional risk.
Poisonings are among the most frequent indications for hospitalization in the United States [ 1 ] . However, the frequency of hospitalizations for poisonings (drug overdose or toxicity) in renal transplant recipients has been infrequently reported, [ 2 3 ] in contrast to its occurrence in kidney donors [ 4 5 ] . Because many medications used by transplant recipients can be toxic, it might be expected that renal transplant recipients would have a higher risk of poisonings than the general population, especially in the first post-transplant year when dosages of immunosuppressive medications are usually at their highest.
Of the seven patients, five subjects had advanced lung fibrosis and were receiving prednisone ± immunosuppressive agents; 2 patients were at an earlier stage of their disease and were not receiving immunosuppressive drugs.
Thus, while some patients with a pancreas transplant tolerate the immunosuppressive agents well, and for such patients diabetic nephropathy can gradually improve, in other patients the net effect (decreased risk due to the improved blood glucose control, increased risk from the immunosuppressive agents) may worsen kidney function.
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