TY - JOUR T1 - The use of insulin pumps improves the metabolic control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 796 LP - 797 DO - 10.1136/adc.2003.046805 VL - 89 IS - 8 AU - S Toni AU - M F Reali AU - A Fasulo AU - P Festini AU - A Medici AU - M E Martinucci Y1 - 2004/08/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/89/8/796.3.abstract N2 - We greatly appreciated the article by Torrance and colleagues1 about the use of insulin pumps and we agree with their conclusion that the benefits of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) outweigh the disadvantages. Our three year experience with CSII at the Juvenile Diabetes Regional Centre of Tuscany has shown that not only does this form of insulin administration enhance the compliance … ER -