[Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus induced by interferon-alpha].

The efficacy in viral neoplastic illness of IFN alpha therapy is responsible of an increasing use of this drug. Disease like hypothyroidism, thyroiditis, thyreotoxicosis, pernicious anemia, LES, vasculitis, thrombocytopenic purpura and, more recently, diabete mellitus, have been described during IFN alpha therapy. We describe another case of diabetes mellitus induced by IFN alpha.