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Evaluation of glycogen storage disease as a cause of ketotic hypoglycemia in children.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 May 2015
Brown Laurie M, Corrado Michelle M, van der Ende Rixt M, Derks Terry G J, Chen Margaret A, Siegel Sara, Hoyt Kate, Correia Catherine E, Lumpkin Christopher, Flanagan Theresa B, Carreras Caroline T, Weinstein David A
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INTRODUCTION: Ketone formation is a normal response when hypoglycemia occurs. Since the majority of children with recurrent hypoglycemia cannot be diagnosed with a known endocrine or metabolic disorder on a critical sample, ketotic hypoglycemia has been described as the most common cause of low blood glucose concentrations in children. Critical samples, however, will miss the ketotic forms of glycogen storage...
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