Islet transplantation in Japan —Report from Japanese Islet Transplantation Registry—

Abstract

In April 2020, islet transplantation was covered by health insurance in Japan. Clinical islet transplantation has been suspended temporarily since July 2019; currently, each facility is in the process of preparing for clinical islet transplantation coverage by health insurance and clinical islet transplantation will be restarted the summer of 2020. Islet transplantation performed using the Edmonton protocol as a clinical trial at each institution that has performed it from 2004 to 2007 and islet transplantation performed as a multi-center clinical trial based on the CIT protocol performed from 2012 are introduced in this report. In addition, the new criteria for the approval of an islet transplant facility and recipient criteria for islet transplantation are introduced as well.