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Sirolimus therapy in infants with severe hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia.
The New England journal of medicine - 20 Mar 2014
Senniappan Senthil, Alexandrescu Sanda, Tatevian Nina, Shah Pratik, Arya Ved, Flanagan Sarah, Ellard Sian, Rampling Dyanne, Ashworth Michael, Brown Robert E, Hussain Khalid
Abstract excerpt
Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia is the most common cause of severe, persistent neonatal hypoglycemia. The treatment of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia that is unresponsive to diazoxide is subtotal pancreatectomy. We examined the effectiveness of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor siro...
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