Insulin secretion several years after type 1 diabetes diagnosis: case reports

Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes and Pregnancy: Three Case Reports

From 5% to 10% of diabetic patients have type 1 diabetes. Here we describe three cases of adult-onset type 1 diabetes in pregnancy treated at our clinic between 2009 and 2012. Two patients came for specialist examination during pregnancy, the third after pregnancy. These women had no prior overt diabetes and shared certain characteristics, that is, no family diabetes history, age over 35, norma...

A Case of Type 1 Diabetes With Nocturnal Hypoglycemia After Desensitization Therapy for Insulin Allergy

A ntibodies against exogenously injected insulin are common with insulin treatment but seldom have serious effects on blood glucose (1). In insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS), however, the insulin antibody causes hy-poglycemia (2) in the absence of exoge-nous insulin treatment. Here, we report a case of type 1 diabetes with insulin antibody, whereby the patient developed nocturnal hypogly-cemia ...

Understanding Pancreatic Secretion in Type 1 Diabetes

affective responses of the parents after diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children

background: these days, diabetes is deemed as one of the most important health and social-economic problems of the world. since parents play a major role in treatment of diabetes, the most important part of managing diabetes is in the hands of the parents of children affected by diabetes. this special responsibility will increase the stress and family challenges and impacts parents’ emotional r...

Concurrence of Lipoatrophy and Lipohypertrophy in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Using Recombinant Human Insulin: Two Case Reports

L ipodystrophy is a disorder afflicting subcutaneous fat and can result in lipoatrophy or lipohypertrophy. Before the advent of recombinant human insulin, insulin-induced lipoatrophy was a common problem among insulin users. Lipoatrophy is a clinical condition characterized by localized loss of subcutaneous fat. The prevalence of lipoatrophy was reported to be as high as 24–55% with animal insu...