Amelioration of Diabetes Mellitus after Pituitary Infarction

Abstract

CLINICAL improvement in diabetes mellitus as a result of pituitary deficiency occurs uncommonly. It resembles the Houssay phenomenon produced experimentally in dogs.¹ Only 14 cases had been reported up to the year of 1955, according to a review by Harvey and de Klerk.² Since then, several other reports have appeared in the literature.The purpose of this communication is to present 3 additional cases and to review the recent literature.Case ReportsCase 1. E.C., a 30-year-old married woman, gravida 4, para 1, was admitted to the Providence Lying-in Hospital on September 15, 1954, because of abdominal cramps and vaginal . . .