Article
[Insulin-dependent neonatal and infant diabetes: genetics and physiopathology].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 May 2002
Diatloff-Zito Catherine, Marquis Eve
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-dependent neonatal diabetes (ND) mellitus is uncommon with a frequency of 1/500,000 neonates in Europe. ND is characterised by hyperglycaemia, very low or undetectable insulin levels associated with intrauterine growth retardation and malformations. HLA haplotypes of juvenile diabetes or autoimmunity are not present in ND patients. Sporadic and familial forms are observed. ND could be persistent (PND) or...
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