title: Juvenile diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, sensory nerve deafness, and diabetes insipidus--a syndrome.
abstract: Four patients with diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and high-frequency neurosensory hearing loss, two of whom also had diabetes insipidus, are described. The frequency of this syndrome among patients with juvenile diabetes appears to be between 1/148 and 1/175. Because of the progressive nature of the disabilities and the autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, careful monitoring of all juvenile diabetic patients for other signs of the syndrome is warranted.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003638:Deafness / Q000150:complications*; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000150:complications*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome