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ReviewJournal of inherited metabolic disease2012

Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia: genetic mechanisms, diagnosis and management.

Senthil Senniappan, Balasubramaniam Shanti, Chela James, Khalid Hussain

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Review in Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Senthil SenniappanDepartment of Paediatric Endocrinology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust WC1N 3JH and Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.
Balasubramaniam Shanti
Chela James
Khalid Hussain

Funding

Medical Research Council G1001821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) is due to the unregulated secretion of insulin from pancreatic β-cells. A rapid diagnosis and appropriate management of these patients is essential to prevent the potentially associated complications like epilepsy, cerebral palsy and neurological impairment. The molecular basis of HH involves defects in key genes (ABCC8, KCNJ11, GLUD1, GCK, HADH, SLC16A1, HNF4A and UCP2) which regulate insulin secretion. The most severe forms of HH are due to loss of function mutations in ABCC8/KCNJ11 which encode the SUR1 and KIR6.2 components respectively of the pancreatic β-cell K(ATP) channel. At a histological level there are two major forms (diffuse and focal) each with a different genetic aetiology. The diffuse form is inherited in an autosomal recessive (or dominant) manner whereas the focal form is sporadic in inheritance and is localised to a small region of the pancreas. The focal form can now be accurately localised pre-operatively using a specialised positron emission tomography scan with the isotope Fluroine-18L-3, 4-dihydroxyphenyalanine (18F-DOPA-PET). Focal lesionectomy can provide cure from the hypoglycaemia. However the diffuse form is managed medically or by near total pancreatectomy (with high risk of diabetes mellitus). Recent advances in molecular genetics, imaging with 18F-DOPA-PET/CT and novel surgical techniques have changed the clinical approach to patients with HH.

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AnimalsCongenital HyperinsulinismHumansInsulinInsulin-Secreting CellsMultimodal ImagingPancreatectomyPositron-Emission TomographyTomography, X-Ray ComputedInsulin

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