This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (35)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

To the Editor: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is caused by severe insulin deficiency that typically results from autoimmune destruction of pancreatic -cells, although in some cases (classified as "idiopathic") there is no evidence of autoimmunity.¹ Recently, a novel etiology of the disease has been described as nonautoimmune fulminant type 1 DM,² which involves abrupt onset of insulin-deficient hyperglycemia, high serum pancreatic enzyme concentrations, and neither diabetes-related autoantibodies nor evidence of insulitis in pancreatic biopsy specimens. We report a case of rapid-onset type 1 DM with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), for which the clinical course was precisely documented. Interestingly, the onset of diabetes coincided with development of hemolytic anemia due to carbamazepine-induced cold agglutinin disease.

Report of a Case

A 77-year-old woman without history of alcohol use developed DKA after 2 weeks of inpatient treatment for allergic skin reactions. She had been treated with carbamazepine (200 mg/d) for 1 month for postherpetic neuralgia before developing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Defective Regulatory T Cells In Patients with Severe Drug Eruptions: Timing of the Dysfunction Is Associated with the Pathological Phenotype and Outcome
Takahashi et al.
J. Immunol. 2009;182:8071-8079.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Minocycline-Induced Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome Followed by Multiple Autoimmune Sequelae
Brown et al.
Arch Dermatol 2009;145:63-66.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

A Case of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Associated With Painless Thyroiditis
Hamasaki et al.
Diabetes Care 2006;29:946-947.
FULL TEXT  

Clinical and Immunogenetic Characteristics of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Associated with Pregnancy
Shimizu et al.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2006;91:471-476.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Flare-Up of Serum Amylase Prior to Onset of Lethal Ketoacidosis in a Patient With Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes
Takahashi et al.
Diabetes Care 2006;29:461-462.
FULL TEXT  

Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes: A nationwide survey in Japan
Imagawa et al.
Diabetes Care 2003;26:2345-2352.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

A Case of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes With Graves' Disease
Miura et al.
Diabetes Care 2002;25:1894-1895.
FULL TEXT  

A Case of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes With Elevated Rheumatoid Factor and the Temporal Presence of Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Receptor Antibody
Sakaue et al.
Diabetes Care 2002;25:935-936.
FULL TEXT