title: Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion: improved blood-glucose and intermediary-metabolite control in diabetics.
abstract: Blood-levels of glucose and the major intermediary metabolites, lactate, pyruvate, 3-hydroxybutyrate, and alanine, were measured in 7 insulin-dependent diabetics during 24 h of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (C.S.I.I.) from a portable dual-rate syringe pump. Results were compared with metabolic profiles during the patients' conventional insulin treatment and with those of 17 non-diabetics. The mean 24 h plasma-glucose during C.S.I.I. was not significantly different from that in non-diabetics. During infusion blood concentrations of lactate, pyruvate, 3-hydroxybutyrate, and alanine were also close to those in the non-diabetic state. Thus, C.S.I.I. provides strict control not only of blood-glucose but also of major metabolites, an essential prerequisite for investigating the influence of good metabolic control on diabetic microangiography.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000409:Alanine / Q000097:blood; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006885:Hydroxybutyrates / Q000097:blood; D007263:Infusions, Parenteral / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007328:Insulin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007773:Lactates / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011773:Pyruvates / Q000097:blood; D013594:Syringes
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D006885:Hydroxybutyrates; D007328:Insulin; D007773:Lactates; D011773:Pyruvates; D000409:Alanine