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Factitious hypoglycemia in patients with leukemia.
In 1927, Falcon-Lesses reported on the rapid disappearance in vitro of glucose in blood removed from patients with leukemic leukocytosis. He demonstrated complete disappearance of glucose from the blood of patients with both myelogenous and lymphocytic leukemia within \tyi to 4 hr. after the blood was drawn. He took great care not to inhibit glycolysis in the blood samples removed from his pati...
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We report two cases emphasizing the importance of insulin assays for evaluation of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients. Case 1 was a 96/12-year-old female patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus and case 2 was a 1010/12-year-old male patient with DIDMOAD. Both patients were on a basal-bolus insulin regimen. Both were admitted because of persistent hypoglycemia. Analyses of serum samples obtained at...
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BACKGROUND Factitious hypoglycemia is a deliberate attempt to induce a low serum glucose level using either insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents. Sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia is more common than incidents of insulin abuse, and hypoglycemia caused by these oral agents is biochemically indistinguishable from insulinoma. METHODS We describe a case of factitious hypoglycemia resulting from in...
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A case of factitious illness in a young village woman is described. She presented with multiple physical and psychiatric symptoms and had interpersonal and sexual problems. A simple behavioural approach was successful in ameliorating her symptoms.
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INTRODUCTION Factitious cheilitis is a chronic condition characterized by crusting and ulceration that is probably secondary to chewing and sucking of the lips. Atopy, actinic damage, exfoliative cheilitis, cheilitis granulomatosa or glandularis, contact dermatitis, photosensitivity reactions and neoplasia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of crusted and ulcerated lesions of th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Meditsinskiy sovet = Medical Council
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2658-5790,2079-701X
DOI: 10.21518/2079-701x-2020-7-130-136