[Experience with the treatment of children with diabetes mellitus using allo- and xenografts of cultures of pancreatic islet cells].

The paper is concerned with the study of the results of allo- and xenotransplantation of pancreatic islet cell culture to 44 children aged 1.5 to 15 suffering from a severe form of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. An impossibility to achieve stable compensation of disease with routine therapy and complications of diabetes mellitus were the main indications for transplantation. Transplantation of beta-cell culture can be recommended as one of the methods of adjuvant therapy of juvenile diabetes.