Diabetes Mellitus Following Mumps

Follicular lymphoma presenting as mumps, with persistent cervical lymphadenopathy

“…The infection can also affect the central nervous system (causing chronic encephalitis, resulting in intellectual deterioration and seizures), 6 gonads in postpubertal males, 7 pancreas (usually haemorrhagic pancreatitis) 8 and heart (usually asymptomatic but myocarditis or pericarditis may develop) and may also complicate pregnancy. The infection can also affect the central nervous system (causing chronic encephalitis, resulting in intellectual deterioration and seizures), 6 gonads in postpubertal males, 7 pancreas (usually haemorrhagic pancreatitis) 8 and heart (usually asymptomatic but myocarditis or pericarditis may develop) and may also complicate pregnancy.…”

“…Mumps is a disease caused by a paramyxo virus that usually spreads through saliva, predominantly affecting the salivary glands. The infection can also affect the central nervous system (causing chronic encephalitis, resulting in intellectual deterioration and seizures), 6 gonads in postpubertal males, 7 pancreas (usually haemorrhagic pancreatitis) 8 and heart (usually asymptomatic but myocarditis or pericarditis may develop) and may also complicate pregnancy. 9 Mumps virions are markedly pleomorphic and roughly spherical, with an outer and an inner membrane.…”

“…Virus isolation is most successful during the first four or five days of symptoms. 8 Treatment of mumps and its complications is generally symptomatic, with oral fluid intake being encouraged together with administration of analgesia and antipyrexial agents. 1 The symptoms and signs of mumps infection usually settle within two weeks, hence the added concern in the case report above.…”

Incidence and differences in urban-rural seasonal variation of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes in Wisconsin

“…One explanation of seasonal diagnoses is an association with infectious agents that vary seasonally [20,21]. However, this necessitates a subsequent explanation of why it is unique to rural and not urban cases.…”

Molecular biology, pathogenesis and pathology of mumps virus

“…Pancreatitis, diagnosed as severe epigastric pain and tenderness, has been reported in approximately 4% of cases . There are conflicting reports on the association between mumps pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus and it is unclear whether there is a causal link.…”