[Will type I diabetes mellitus be treated with immunosuppressive drugs in the future?]

Diem, P (1993). [Will type I diabetes mellitus be treated with immunosuppressive drugs in the future?]. Therapeutische Umschau, 50(2), pp. 114-8. Bern: Huber

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Even if the pathogenesis of type-I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is still not clarified in every detail, there is general agreement that this form of diabetes is induced by autoimmune mechanisms leading to beta-cell destruction. Therefore, it should theoretically be feasible to suppress the mechanism leading to type-I diabetes with appropriate and early immunotherapy. The current clinical data clearly document that the rate and duration of remissions in patients with newly diagnosed type-I diabetes can be increased significantly using appropriate immunosuppressive regimens. However, before these therapies can become standard therapy of type-I diabetes, the following important clinical requirements have to be fulfilled: the toxicity (especially to kidneys and beta-cells) has to be reduced, the patients should be diagnosed and treated in 'pre-diabetic' states, more selective immunosuppressive regimens have to be available in order to reduce the occurrence of treatment-associated lymphomas and neoplasias. Since accurate detection of 'pre-diabetic' patients is difficult and presents an immense logistic problem, it may take a long time before large-scale immunosuppressive therapies of type-I diabetes are feasible.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition

UniBE Contributor:

Diem, Peter

ISSN:

0040-5930

ISBN:

8456415

Publisher:

Huber

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:56

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:17

PubMed ID:

8456415

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/23876 (FactScience: 44896)

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