A CASE OF INSULIN RESISTANCE TREATED WITH CORTICOTROPIN

Abstract

The patient with diabetes mellitus who requires more than 200 units of insulin per day is usually regarded as insulin resistant. This is a relatively rare condition, in that some 50 instances have been reported to date (1–8). The duration and the severity of the insulin resistance vary from patient to patient and from time to time in any one patient (1, 8). Nevertheless, insulin resistance is a condition which is self limited (4, 8). The present report deals with a patient in whom there developed a resistance to insulin which was apparently influenced favorably by the administration of corticotropin.