Characteristics of patients who developed glucose intolerance in the early period after partial pancreatectomy.

Background: New-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) often develops after partial pancreatectomy. Little is known regarding how soon patients develop glucose intolerance after partial pancreatectomy. We investigated the incidence of and factors contributing to the development of glucose intolerance during hospitalization after partial pancreatectomy.

Sequential elevation of autoantibodies to thyroglobulin and glutamic acid decarboxylase in type 1 diabetes.

We have previously reported the high levels of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 autoantibodies (GAD65A) in patients with type 1 diabetes and autoimmune thyroid disease. Here we describe a 32-year-old Japanese female with a thirteen-year history of type 1 diabetes whose levels of GAD65A were elevated just after the emergence of anti-thyroid autoimmunity. At 19 years of age, she developed diabetic ketoacidosis and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.