[Diabetes mellitus type 1 among the patients with Turner syndrome or Turner syndrome among the patients with diabetes mellitus type 1?].
BACKGROUND
Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal disorder occurring in approximately 1/2000 living female births and its essence is existence of only one normal X chromosome. There are data from many centres interested in TS which confirm increased frequency of impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 in TS. Knowledge about DM type 1 in this syndrome is very limited.


OBJECTIVE
There are 2 girls in our clinic with TS (from among 75 diagnosed and treated) in whom diabetes mellitus was diagnosed and required insulinotherapy (type 1).


OBJECTIVE
presentation of clinical appearance of TS and DM type 1 in both girls.


METHODS
Patient LA: not very characteristic fenotype, karyotype 45,X, TS recognised in the age of 10-years, DM - 11-years. Patient BE: characteristic features, karyotype 45,X, TS recognised in the age of 8-years, DM - 3-years.


CONCLUSIONS
1. Each Turner syndrome case ought to arouse "diabetic vigilance". 2. Observation toward Turner syndrome is advisable in each short patient with diabetes mellitus.
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