According to the news from Fuzhou on March 31, China has scored its first success in the transplanting of pancreatic cells for Diabetes A in the General Army Hospital of Fuzhou under the command of Nanjing Military Zone. On Mar 31, the operation recipient had completely shaken off the trouble of nine years in which he had to use insulin. This is the first successful case of pancreatic cell transplanting operation for adult in Asia.
The diabetes, which is seriously harmful to the health of people consist of A and B two types. Diabetes A is an insulin dependant The sufferers, due to the damage of the cell for insulin excretion have to depend daily on the injection of insulin to keep a stable glucose metabolism for life. The cure by medicine commonly practiced in clinics won't be able to reverse the morbid progress and so the adult pancreatic cell transplanting is the only way for the thorough cure of diabetes. The thorny problem in the medical circle has now become a hot potato for all experts and scholars to study the world over.
The subject group with Tan Jianming at the head has scored a breakthrough in a time of two years, heralding in setting up a big-rat diabetes model in Asia. They determined ingeniously the best section from which pancreatic cell could be transplanted through the hepatic portal vein and the treatment program without using hormone against immune-depression, thereby overcoming a series of such thorny problems as pancreas digestion, separation of pancreatic cells, purification and effective treatment and so on.
The recipient of the adult pancreatic cell transplanting is a female patient of the Fuqing City, Fujian Province. Nine years ago she began to suffer from diabetes, depending on the 3 injections of insulin daily for life. Last January and March, Tan Jianming and other medical specialists had for two times transplanted one after another the scientifically extracted adult pancreatic cells into her body. After the first transplantation the patient reduced four fifth of the insulin use amount and she thoroughly shook off the use of insulin only 7 hours after the second transplantation of the pancreatic cells.
Experts hold, the success of the transplantation of adult pancreatic cells has marked that China has stepped onto the world-advanced level in this field, finding out the way for thorough treatment for sufferers of Diabetes A.
(People’s Daily April 2, 2003)
