PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bhowmick, Samar K.
AU  - Estrada, Benjamin
AU  - Rettig, Kenneth R.
TI  - Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in 2 Male African American Children After Kawasaki Disease
AID  - 10.1542/peds.110.2.e27
DP  - 2002 Aug 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - e27--e27
VI  - 110
IP  - 2
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/110/2/e27.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/110/2/e27.full
SO  - Pediatrics2002 Aug 01; 110
AB  - Two children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) presented with diabetic ketoacidosis within 4 months of being diagnosed with Kawasaki disease (KD). Both patients were African American males younger than 4 years of age. Immune markers associated with the autoimmune cause of diabetes were not detectable in these patients at the time of diagnosis with IDDM. In 1 patient, the immune markers were repeated 6 months after diagnosis but remained negative. Both patients currently require ∼1 unit of insulin/kg/d. Occurrence of IDDM after KD is rare; we could find no such reports in the English literature. The cause of diabetes in these 2 patients remains elusive, as does the cause of KD.