Improving the Procedure for Detection of Intrahepatic Transplanted Islets by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Improving the Procedure for Detection of Intrahepatic Transplanted Islets by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02791.x
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发表时间:
2009-10-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Del Maschio, A.
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作者:
Malosio, M. L.;Esposito, A.;Del Maschio, A.
Islet transplantation is an effective therapy for restoring normoglycemia in type-1 diabetes, but long-term islet graft function is achieved only in a minority of cases. Noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging of pancreatic islets is an attractive option for "real-time" monitoring of graft evolution. So far, previous studies have been performed in the absence of a standardized labeling procedure and, besides a feasibility study in patients, the effectiveness and safety of various labeling approaches were tested only with high field magnets (4.7 T). In this study, we addressed: (a) standardization of a labeling procedure for human islets with clinically-approved contrast agent Endorem