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The surgical management of congenital hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in infancy.
Journal of pediatric surgery - 1 Mar 2004
Fékété C Nihoul, de Lonlay P, Jaubert F, Rahier Jacques, Brunelle F, Saudubray J M
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BACKGROUND: Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is characterized by profound hypoglycaemia caused by inappropriate insulin secretion. CHI is a heterogeneous disorder with at least 2 histologic lesions and several implicated genes. If CHI is caused by a focal lesion, elective surgery is the only treatment because it leads to complete recovery without diabetes; on the contrary, diffuse CHI can only be cured by...
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