Postprandial hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a child as a late complication of esophageal reconstruction
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Rade Vukovic
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Tatjana Milenkovic
Abstract
Background:
Postprandial hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (PHH) is an increasingly recognized complication of gastric bypass surgery in obese adults, distinct from the “dumping syndrome”.
Case presentation:
Upon birth, primary repair of esophageal atresia was performed, and at the age of 14 months definite esophageal reconstruction was performed. At the age of 3 years, recurrent brief episodes of symptomatic hypoglycemia started. At the age of 5.7 years the girl was admitted to our clinic and investigations indicated hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and continuous glucose monitoring results revealed frequent postprandial hypoglycemic events, which were always preceded by early postprandial hyperglycemia. It was concluded that the patient had PHH caused by a delayed and hyperinsulinemic response to carbohydrate intake as a result of esophagogastric surgery. Treatment with acarbose was titrated using flash glucose monitoring, which resulted in satisfactory glucose regulation.
Conclusions:
This is the first described case of a child with PHH following esophageal reconstruction.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- High prevalence of organ specific autoantibodies in Indian type 1 diabetic patients
- Improved metabolic control in tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), responsive phenylketonuria with sapropterin administered in two divided doses vs. a single daily dose
- Excessive weight gain in exclusively breast-fed infants
- Comparison of Tanner staging of HIV-infected and uninfected girls at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria
- Joint association of screen time and physical activity with anthropometric measures in Iranian children and adolescents: the weight disorders survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
- Assessment of insulin like growth factor-1 and IGF binding protein-3 in healthy Indian girls from Delhi and their correlation with age, pubertal status, obesity and thyroid hormonal status
- Impact of discontinuation of growth hormone treatment on lipids and weight status in adolescents
- Clinical, biochemical and genetic features with nonclassical 21-hydroxylase deficiency and final height
- A combined approach to generate laboratory reference intervals using unbalanced longitudinal data
- Clinical evaluation and mutational analysis of GALK and GALE genes in patients with galactosemia in Greece: one novel mutation and two rare cases
- Case Reports
- Pediatric toxic polycystic thyroid
- In utero virilization secondary to a maternal Krukenberg tumor: case report and review of literature
- Postprandial hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a child as a late complication of esophageal reconstruction
- Long-term follow-up of a child with Klinefelter syndrome and achondroplasia from infancy to 16 years
