Insulin-mediated pseudoacromegaly: a report of two pediatric patients
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Mark Inman
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Munier A. Nour
Abstract
Background:
Insulin-mediated pseudoacromegaly is a rarely described pediatric phenotype. We present two patients displaying excessive growth associated with marked acanthosis nigricans, hyperinsulinemia and metabolic dysregulation.
Case presentation:
Both patients, of First Nations descent, presented with excessive growth – patient one at 3.92 years (height z-score +3.75) and patient two at 9.0 years (height z-score 5.15). Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels were normal with appropriate growth hormone suppression, yet marked hyperinsulinemia. Prepubescent growth velocities exceeded 9 cm/year, resulting in final adult height predictions exceeding 3 standard deviations (SDs) of predicted. Clinical courses were complicated by type 2 diabetes, marked acanthosis nigricans and long-standing psychosocial distress.
Conclusions:
Pediatric patients with insulin-mediated pseudoacromegaly are at risk of significant physical, metabolic and psychosocial comorbidities. Unlike adults, the implications in childhood prompt consideration for therapies to decelerate linear growth and avert progression to metabolic dysregulation. Increased recognition of this condition may improve pathophysiological understanding, diagnostic criteria and therapeutic options.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the significant contributions to this paper from Sharmin Hares. We also would like to acknowledge Raelynn Friesen, pediatric endocrinology nurse with the Division of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Saskatchewan, for her involvement with these patients. We also thank the two patients and their respective families for allowing us to share their clinical stories.
Author contributions: MI participated in the background literature review, data collection and review, and manuscript preparation. MN participated in the data review and manuscript preparation. 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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- Management of thyrotoxicosis in children and adolescents: 35 years’ experience in 304 patients
- Clinical and cytogenetic features of 516 patients with suspected Turner syndrome – a single-center experience
- Response to growth hormone treatment in very young patients with growth hormone deficiencies and mini-puberty
- Reference centile curves for wrist circumference for Indian children aged 3–18 years
- Comparison between two inhibin B ELISA assays in 46,XY testicular disorders of sex development (DSD) with normal testosterone secretion
- Genetic mutations associated with neonatal diabetes mellitus in Omani patients
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