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Personalized precision medicine in extreme preterm infants with transient neonatal diabetes mellitus.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 May 2017
Kylat Ranjit I, Senguttuvan Rajan, Bader Mohammed Y
Abstract excerpt
Although hyperglycemia is common in neonates, especially preterm infants, a diagnosis of neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) is rarely made. NDM can be permanent (45%), transient (45%) or syndromic (10%). Of the 95% of identifiable mutations for NDM, methylation defects in 6q24, KCNJ11, ABCC8, and INS account for the majority. Two cases of transient NDM in extremely preterm, 24 weeks' gestational age (GA) triplets,...
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