Type 1 diabetes with no diabetic complications, 62 years later

We report a type 1 diabetes in an 88-year-old female patient discovered in 1938 at the age of 26. She was promptly put on insulin, which lasted 62 yea rs so far. This patient was highly remarkable because she portrayed a histo rical case of insulin-treated diabetes diagnosed in 1938. The absence of mi croangiopathy and specially retinopathy was quite singular, all the more re ason that her diabetes was ill-controlled. Environmental or genetic factors may, one day, explain this unusual favourable outcome. (C) 2001 Elsevier S cience Inc. All rights reserved.