[Clinical experience obtained from attention to and delivery of pregnant women with diabetes mellitus with insulin treatment required (author's transl)]. / Klinische Erfahrungen bei der Betreuung und Entbindung von Schwangeren mit insulinpflichtigem Diabetes mellitus.

Perinatal mortality recorded from 87 patients with diabetes mellitus requiring administration of insulin was 6.66 per cent between 1975 and 1977. The authors' results are compared with those obtained at different obstetric centres and discussed. Optimum regulation of metabolism and full utilisation of all diagnostic facilities available during pregnancy were found to be essential to individual delivery in the closest possible vicinity of the calculated term.