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Successful pregnancy in I.D.D.M. with intravenous programmable insulin pump

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Management of subcutaneous insulin resistance remains a difficult problem which can be treated by administering insulin intravenously by means of infusion pumps1,2. We wish to report the case of a 31 year old primigravida with subcutaneous insulin resistance who developed a hitherto undescribed clinical complication of clot formation at the catheter tip, successfully treated with anti-coagulant therapy. Previous publications on the use of pumps in pregnancy have reported on the intraperitoneal route for insulin administration.

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  1. Department of Endocrinology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9, Ireland

    E. Brosnan & J. G. Devlin

  2. Department of Endocrinology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9, Ireland

    E. Brosnan

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Brosnan, E., Devlin, J.G. Successful pregnancy in I.D.D.M. with intravenous programmable insulin pump. I.J.M.S. 163, 56–57 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943015

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