Abstract
A case of a 19-year-old, non-obese female with insulin resistant diabetes mellitus and polycystic ovary syndrome was reported. The maximal insulin requirement attained 360 units per day, but a satisfactory control of diabetes did not follow. The patient's serum contained not only anti-insulin antibodies, but also possible anti-insulin receptor antibodies which were demonstrated by the 125I-insulin binding test using insulin receptors derived from human placental plasma membrane. The insulin resistance in this case was assumed to be caused primarily by possible blocking antibodies to insulin receptors and partly by anti-insulin antibodies because of the following observations. First, high serum free insulin (165 microunits/ml) without hypoglycemia indicates the presence of insulin resistance due to other factors than antiinsulin antibodies. Second, the titer of 125I-insulin binding capacity of serum was not unusually higher than those seen in chronically insulin-treated diabetics. Third, immunologically heterospecies insulin (fish insulin) was also ineffective. The clinical features such as absence of ketoacidosis and association with polycystic ovary syndrome resemble those of an unique diabetic syndrome reported previously though acanthosis nigricans and endogenous hyperinsulinemia were not found in this case. Her insulin resistance remitted spontaneously and over the next 18 months' observation, her diabetes remained regulated without insulin therapy.
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