Hepatic subcapsular steatosis: a rare complication of high dose insulin therapy.

Hepatic subcapsular steatosis is a rare pattern of fatty infiltration of the liver exclusively described in diabetic patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis who had received insulin in peritoneal dialysate. We describe a first case of severe subcapsular hepatic steatosis in a young diabetic patient on high dose insulin therapy (with striking subcapsular fatty infiltration of the liver documented by CT and MRI) without any evidence of chronic renal disease and not undergoing peritoneal dialysis.