Vignette therapeutique. Quel traitement injectable apres echec du traitement oral chez le patient diabetique de type 2 ?

The shift to injection therapy, after failure of oral antidiabetic agents, is often considered as a difficult step by both the patient with type 2 diabetes and the physician, a situation that may lead to clinical inertia. Schematically, two options may be considered, either starting insulin therapy with a preference for basal insulin analogues, or adding a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA). Each option has its advantages and disadvantages, which opens the road to personalized medicine. Nevertheless, the preference is increasingly given to GLP-1 AR, yet this solution is more limited by reimbursement conditions. A combination of the two approaches is also possible, with the recent commercialisation of fixed-ratio specialities combining a basal insulin analogue and a GLP-1 RA. This clinical case offers the opportunity to discuss all these different therapeutic options in a patient with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes despite a combination of oral antidiabetic agents, taking also into account the current conditions for reimbursement in Belgium.