Vol 8, No 2 (2007): Practical Diabetology
Review article
Published online: 2007-03-02
Management of diabetes in patients after total pancreatectomy
Diabetologia Praktyczna 2007;8(2):58-63.
Abstract
Total pancreatectomy results in diabetes needing insulin administration. The diabetes is rather brittle with high incidence of hypoglycaemia. The basal treatment is intensive insulin therapy. In the present "transplant era", there is the possibility of curing apancreatic diabetes using autologic islets transplantation, especially in patients operated for chronic pancreatitis. This article summarizes the current methods of treatment of patients after total pancreatectomy.
Keywords: total pancreatectomydiabetesintensive insulin therapyislets transplantation