Ultrasound assessment of cutaneous/subcutaneous dystrophies in insulin-treated patients. A report on two cases.

Insulin treatment can lead to local soft tissue dystrophies. We present the cases of two insulin-treated subjects with two different injecting systems: a basal/bolus and a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pump). The local cutaneous/subcutaneous dystrophies adversely affected their glycaemic values.

Ultrasonographic aspect of subcutaneous tissue dystrophies as a result of insulin injections.

Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate by ultrasonography the local dystrophies caused by insulin subcutaneous injections. The insulin treated diabetic patients must inject their long life insulin into normal tissue. The objective was to add ultrasonographic arguments to the clinic examination in order to periodically reconsider the available area to be used.

Pancreatic B-cell culture after intravitam B-cell selection with nitric pilocarpine and modified B-technique use.

Our purpose was intravitam selection of endocrine pancreatic tissue. We decided to use 3% nitric pilocarpine as oral treatment for normal Wistar rats. This experiment was made on 12 male normal Wistar rats, 8 of them receiving 0.

Not only quantitative but also qualitative changes of serum immunoglobulins in diabetes mellitus.

To extend previous observations on the quantitative changes of IgA and other serum Ig in diabetics, additional immunochemical investigations were carried out in 96 patients, 63 males and 33 females, mean age 43.5 +/- 15.7 years, 51 with type 1 (insulin-dependent) and 45 with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.

Pancreas transplantation. Experimental and clinical trials.

The ever increasing incidence of diabetes mellitus has stimulated the immunologic investigations concerned with the role of heredity and the toleration rate of transplants of pancreas organ or islet structures. Concomitant or subsequent trials have attempted to define or avoid the apparently diabetogenic factors. With respect to the effectiveness of diabetes therapy, one cannot deny the contrast between the practical and the theoretical aspects.

Is microalbuminuria a different problem for type I and type II diabetes mellitus?

As in previous studies an improved single radial immunodiffusion technique was used for albumin, calculating the albumin/creatinine ratio in spot urine (mg/g/1.73 m2). This ratio was 4.