Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of 10 islet transplant recipients (5 islet transplant alone and 5 islet after kidney transplants).

Subject no.	Islet alone (ITA) or islet after kidney (IAK)	Immunosuppressive regimen	Number of infusions	Total number of IEQ	Total IEQ/kg	Obtained insulin independence?	Insulin independent at 1 year post-final transplant?	Number of days insulin independent†	Units of insulin required (12 months post-initial transplant)	Units of Insulin required (12 months post-final transplant)	Number of severe hypoglycaemic episodes at 1 year post-initial transplant	HgbA1c
												Pretransplant	1 year post-initial transplant	3 months post-final transplant	6 months post-final transplant	9 months post-final transplant	12 months post-final transplant
i	ITA	Dac, Tac., Sir.	3	1 269 000	20 466	Y	Y	1790	13	0	0	5.9	5.3	5.3	6.7	7.4	ND
2*	ITA	Dac, Tac., MMF	2	834 000	11 440	N	N	0	24	*	*	8.9	*	7.9	*	*	*
3	IAK	Dac, Tac., Sir MMF	3	1 178 659	17 886	Y	Y	372	0	0	0	7.5	4.5	<4	4.4	4.6	4.8
4	ITA	Dac, Tac., Sir	3	2 548 932	31 810	N	N	0	32	25	0	7.4	6.7	5.8	6.8	6.9	6.9
5**	ITA	Dac, Tac., Sir	2	2 020 000	27 419	Y	N	270	0	20	0	8	5.6	5.8	5.6	6.5	6.3
6	ITA	Dac, Tac., Sir MMF	2	1 782 111	25 817	Y	Y	1596	0	0	0	7.3	5.6	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.6
7	ITA	Dac, Tac., Sir	3	2 032 850	29 614	Y	N	63	10	15	0	7.1	7.4	7.0	7.4	8	8.4
8	IAK	Dac, Tac., Sir Myfortic	2	1 334 700	25 430	Y	Y	1465	0	0	0	7.7	5.3	6	6.1	5.3	5.3
9	IAK	Dac, Tac., Sir MMF	2	1 061 310	19 187	Y	Y	631	0	0	0	6.7	5.9	5.8	6.0	NA	5.9
10	IAK	Dac, Tac., Sir Dac, Tac., Sir M	2	994 350	18 397	Y	Y	521	0	0	0	7.5	5.8	6.1	5.7	5.8	5.6

Patients received an average of 22 746 ± 6289 IEQ/kg body weight. Eight patients achieved insulin independence. Six of 10 patients remained insulin independent > 1 year. Six patients required two infusions and the remaining four patients received three infusions.

^*Subject no. 2 withdrew from the study.

^**Patient is waiting for third transplant.

^†As of 2 May 2010.