hrp0089p3-p100 | Diabetes & Insulin P3 | ESPE2018

Is There a Relationship between Immune-Mediated Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Congenital Rubella Infection?

Korkmaz Huseyin Anil , Ermis Cağatay

Congenital rubella infection is a transplacental infection that can cause intrauterine growth retardation, cataract, patent ductus arteriosus, hearing loss, microcephaly, thrombocytopenia and severe fetal injury. It has been shown that type 1 diabetes mellitus develops in 12–20% of patients with congenital rubella infection and disorder in oral glucose tolerance test is observed in 40%. A 13-year-old male patient presented with complaints of new-onset polydipsia, urinatio...