The overall objective of this pilot project is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the gastric submucosal space as a novel site for clinical islet transplantation. The site has several physiologic attributes that may improve the outcomes of islet transplantation compared with the conventional intraportal transplant site.
The overall objective of this pilot project is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the gastric submucosal space as a novel site for clinical islet transplantation. Safety will be evaluated by the monitoring of side effects such as post procedural GI complications, frequency of hypo and hyperglycemic events, and immunosuppression side effects. Efficacy will be determined by accepted measures including insulin independence, long term glucose control, and reduction/elimination of hypoglycemic events. The site has several physiologic attributes that may improve the outcomes of islet transplantation compared with the conventional intraportal transplant site.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0
Hypo- and Hyper-glycemia limits for blood glucose related risks; during procedure, abdominal pain, duodenal hemorrhage, and duodenal perforation post-procedure, fever, cytokine release syndrome (to the thymoglobulin), immunosuppression related issues
Time frame: Six months
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