ArticleAnnals of Saudi medicine
Iatrogenic occult infection causing hypoglycemia in a teenage female.
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Hypoglycemia is a clinically significant disorder with a wide variety of underlying causes. We report an unusual case of hypoglycemic episodes caused by an iatrogenic infection in a 17-year-old white female who presented to our emergency department complaining of 2-3 episodes of syncope per week in the previous year, which started after an appendectomy in 2016. She was hypoglycemic and a vague painless abdominal mass was found upon palpation. An abdominal CT revealed a large, well-defined heterogeneous lesion. The excised mass was surrounded by pieces of gauze that had remained in her abdomen since the appendectomy. An asymptomatic infection was the cause of her hypoglycemic episodes. After antibiotic therapy, the abdominal symptoms resolved within the first week and at follow up at 6 months after surgery, her glucose level was back to normal. This is the first reported case of iatrogenic occult infection with episodic hypoglycemia as a cardinal feature. This case illustrates that infection should remain in the differential diagnosis although cardinal signs are absent. SIMILAR CASES PUBLISHED: 0.
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