Endocrine Abstracts

Cardiac complications including cardiac arrest in Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) have been reported in adults but is not common in children. We present a case of a 3½ year old child with new onset Type 1 Diabetes who presented in severe DKA and went into cardiac arrest needing prolonged resuscitation after starting insulin infusion due to rapid drop of serum potassium (K+). Serum K+ on presentation was 2.8 mmol/l and dropped to 1.5 mmol/l within 2.5 h of starting insulin lea...

Erratic release of insulin accounts from periodic nature of the symptoms in insulinoma. Islet-amyloid polypeptide has been demonstrated in human insulin producing tumours- insulinoma. Presence of amyloid tissue has been demonstrated in pancreatic islets in patients with diabetes mellitus. Impaired islet function is a feature of diabetes mellitus. Hyperglycaemia, as in diabetes, enhances amylin secretion. Presence of insulinoma has been documented in past but insulionoma presen...

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