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ea0019p69 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2009

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in virilised female with learning difficulties

Osborne L , Balen A , Freeman M

Case: A 22-year-old lady was referred with marked hirsutism for 12 months and secondary amenorrhoea for 4 years. She has a complex medical background including persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy (PHII) necessitating subtotal pancreatectomy with subsequent diabetes. Perhaps a result of PHII, she also has learning difficulties and epilepsy. Other problems include myopathy and mild chronic thrombocytopaenia.Medications: insulins glargine ...