D. Spitzer et al., HELLP-SYNDROME AND MANIFESTATION OF TYPE- I DIABETES-MELLITUS DURING PREGNANCY, Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, 54(12), 1994, pp. 702-704
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.