Insulin-insensitive variety of combined types A and B diabetes mellitus progressing to systemic lupus erythematosus.
We have described a patient whose clinical course suggests that Kahn's types A and B insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus can exist as insulin-insensitive variants, type A can progress to type B, and type B insulin-insensitive diabetes can be associated with classical SLE long after the diabetes (and acanthosis nigricans) have resolved.
D000052:Acanthosis Nigricans / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology
D007328:Insulin