Abstract
Fetal tissue grafting has been used in Russia for some 15 years for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with complications. The use of cultured islet cells from the fetal human, as well as animal, pancreas has been successful even in the absence of immunosuppression. This review concerns only studies carried out in the CIS and the rest of the former USSR. It describes the treatment of complications of diabetes mellitus (retinopathy, nephropathy, polyneuropathy), the treatment of diabetes mellitus in children and pregnant women, and the preparation of patients with diabetes mellitus for surgery.
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