successful Treatment of Extremely Brittle, Insulin-dependent Diabetes with a Novel Subcutaneous Insulin Pump Regimen
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 5 (2) , 105-110
- https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.5.2.105
Abstract
Brittle, insulin-dependent diabetic patients with extremely labile glucose control requiring frequent hospitalizations were treated with a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion delivered with a programme ble pump. As reported by others, the patients did not improve with a regimen of preprandial boluses superimposed on a continuous single-rate infusion. However, they demonstrated dramatic clinical and metabolic improvement with a modified pump regimen that delivered a variable square-wave insulin infusion and avoided any boluses. These very difficult patients can benefit by insulin pump therapy.Keywords
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