Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Lipohypertrophy (LH) is a chronic complication of diabetes mellitus that could develop in any age, any injection site, and be any size. At present time, new method, as ultrasonography of subcutaneous fat, of LH diagnostics were appeared.Design: The aim of this study has been to estimate efficiency of insulinotherapy in diabetic patients after LH was diagnosed by ultrasonography. This study was done on 50 diabetic patients (31 females and 19...

Introduction: Lipohypertrophy (LH) is a chronic complication of diabetes mellitus that caused by frequent subcutaneous injections of insulin. Nowadays, LH were modified due to good quality modern insulin and expansion their concentration. As a result, some difficulties of diagnosis were appeared.Design: The aim of this study has been to develop the estimation risk model of insulin induced LH in diabetic patients. This study was done on 140 diabetic patie...

Introduction: Lipohypertrophy (LH) is a chronic complication of diabetes mellitus that caused by frequent s.c. injections of insulin. Nowadays, LH were modified due to good quality modern insulin and expansion their concentration. As a result, some difficulties of diagnosis were appeared.Design: The aim of this study has been to compare the frequency of insulin induced LH in diabetic patients revealed by ultrasonography of subcutaneous fat with those fou...