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G P Alexandre

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[Current status of pancreas transplantation].

Today, combined kidney and pancreas transplantation is the best treatment for patients with type I diabetes and pre-end or end-stage renal disease due to the diabetic nephropathy. Twenty-nine patients underwent that procedure at our Institution. Recent technical modifications--with the use of a whole pancreas graft with urinary drainage of the exocrine secretion in the recipient by performing a pancreatico-duodeno-cystostomy--allow the monitoring of the exocrine secretion which is a pertinent immunological marker for pancreas rejection. In the next future, pancreas alone should be considered safely using the same procedure, in non uremic diabetic recipients in whom extra-renal secondary complications are more serious than the potential side effects of chronic immunosuppression. That type of pancreas transplantation should benefit of the forthcoming immunosuppressive drugs.

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1↗

[Value of the pentagastrin test in familial hypercalcitoninemia].

This report concerns the history of a portugesian family including one case of MEN II a (female, born 1932, presenting medullary carcinoma of the thyroid--MCT--, hyperparathyroidism and suspected pheochomocytoma), and three others with MCT alone or in association with pheochromocytoma. The diagnosis of MCT has been made possible investigating six members of the kindred by use of IR - calcitonin measurements and pentagastrin injection. This provocative screening test is also of interest to follow operated patients.

Calcitonin↗