A Case of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes With Graves’ Disease
- Yoshitaka Miura, MD,
- Atsushi Suzuki, MD,
- Ikuko Sato, MD,
- Yoko Kato, MD and
- Yutaka Oiso, MD
- 1From the First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Type 1 diabetes is now classified as classic autoimmune (type 1A) and idiopathic (type 1B) diabetes. Fulminant type 1 diabetes was recently characterized as a novel subtype of type 1B diabetes. This disease was characterized as rapid onset, having an absence of diabetes-related autoantibodies, and having the presence of lymphocyte infiltration in exocrine pancreatic tissue without insulitis (1–3). Although fulminant type 1 diabetes has been clinically recognized, its etiology still remains obscure. In this article, we report a case of fulminant …
