Diabetes Case Reports

Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Publications

• Case Report   
  Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in a Bipolar Patient on Atypical Antipsychotic Therapy-A Case Report
  Author(s): Angelo Emilio Claro*, Pitocco D, Palanza C, Tartaglione L, Mazza M, Janiri L and Pontecorvi A
  
  Background: To draw attention on the management of patients with type 2 diabetes treated with atypical neuroleptic drugs and to document that remission of the endocrinologic picture can take place even in patients under this treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to show the remission of type 2 diabetes after starting therapy with atypical antipsychotic. Case presentation: We describe a patient who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2001 and was in treatment with insulin. He started in 2014 an atypical antipsychotic therapy for bipolar disorder at the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli with a parallel change in life style (i.e., diet and multi-weekly physical activity). In 2019, after 4 years of integrated diabetic psychiatric therapy, the endocrinological picture of the patient entered into.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35841/2572-5629.24.9.220

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