HELLP-SYNDROME AND MANIFESTATION OF TYPE- I DIABETES-MELLITUS DURING PREGNANCY

Citation
D. Spitzer et al., HELLP-SYNDROME AND MANIFESTATION OF TYPE- I DIABETES-MELLITUS DURING PREGNANCY, Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 54(12), 1994, pp. 702-704
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Obsetric & Gynecology
ISSN journal
00165751
Volume
54
Issue
12
Year of publication
1994
Pages
702 - 704
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-5751(1994)54:12<702:HAMOTI>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
HELLP syndrome (haemolysis, elevated liver function tests and low plat elets) is a multiorganic disease and has been described in combination with pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, but even without symptoms of gestosis. There are signs, that HELLP syndrome represents an ''acute status of a utoimmunity''. Since immune mechanisms play a fundamental role togethe r with other factors in the development of type I diabetes mellitus, a combination of autoimmune reactions could explain the development of type I diabetes during an altered immune status. We report on the cour se of a pregnancy complicated by HELLP syndrome, which developed type I diabetes mellitus in the same pregnancy. A subsequent pregnancy with adequate diabetes therapy was uncomplicated and without recurrence of HELLP syndrome.