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Personalized medicine switching from insulin to sulfonylurea in permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus dictated by a novel activating ABCC8 mutation.
Diagnostic molecular pathology : the American journal of surgical pathology, part B - 1 Mar 2012
Mak Chloe Miu, Lee Ching-yin, Lam Ching-wan, Siu Wai-Kwan, Hung Vanessa Ching-ngar, Chan Albert Yan-wo
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BACKGROUND: Neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) is a rare but important condition affecting approximately 1 in 100,000 newborns. Permanent form requires life-long treatment with difficulties in long-term compliance and metabolic complications. Exact genetic diagnosis can enable improved outcome and patient satisfaction by switching insulin injection to oral sulfonylureas. Successful cases have been reported with...
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