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Dominantly inherited hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2005
de Lonlay P, Giurgea I, Sempoux C, Touati G, Jaubert F, Rahier J, Ribeiro M, Brunelle F, Nihoul-Fékété C, Robert J-J, Saudubray J-M, Stanley C, Bellanné-Chantelot C
Abstract excerpt
Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI), the most important cause of hypoglycaemia in early infancy, is a heterogeneous disease with two types of histological lesions, focal and diffuse, with major consequences in terms of surgical approaches. In contrast to focal islet-cell hyperplasia, always sporadic to our knowledge, diffuse hyperinsulinism is a heterogeneous disorder involving several genes, various mechanisms of...
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