Refractory hyperglycemia complicating an evolving connective tissue disease: response to cyclosporine.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 33-year-old woman with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren's syndrome developed type B insulin resistance (diabetes mellitus due to anti-insulin receptor antibodies) simultaneous with the evolution of her rheumatic disease to mixed connective tissue disease. Cyclosporine therapy induced a remission of receptor antibody mediated insulin resistance and controlled clinical manifestations of her systemic lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis, but had no effect on the sclerodermatous features of her illness.
Medical subject headings
- Cyclosporine
- Hyperglycemia
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease