Controlled multicenter study on the effect of computer assistance in intensive insulin therapy of type 1 diabetics.

This paper describes the results of a controlled multicenter study on the effect of the computer assistance in the intensive insulin therapy. The patient collective consisted of 50 diabetics, randomly divided in two groups with 25 patients per group. The Multiple Subcutaneous Injection (MSI) group was treated with the usually intensive regimen.

[Objectivity, reproducibility and validity of 3D ultrasound in dermatology].

Recently it has become possible to visualize the three-dimensional (3D) architecture of sonographic structures using high-resolution ultrasound above 20 MHz (Dermascan C, Denmark; DUB 20, Germany). We studied the objectivity, reproducibility, and validity of these two 3D analysis systems on 22 skin tumors. To validate both systems, we compared the sonometric and histometric volume in 4 tumors.

[History of high frequency sonography].

The development of high frequency sonography (< 20MHz) has gained increasing importance since the last decade. In this field A-mode-scanner were used firstly in the measurement of skin thickness. 1987 the first commercial available 20 MHz B-scanning system was introduced.

Computer assisted insulin dosage adjustment--perspectives for diabetes control.

Pocket computers provide the physician's (expert's) advice at home and by that may increase the number of self-adapting diabetics and alleviate documentation and evaluation of therapy data. By a more complex quantitative approach metabolic control may be improved beyond the range which is attained by optimal intensified education, as clinical trials showed. By their reproducible measures a learning process seems to be induced in the patients.