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Hypoglycaemia in childhood.
HYPOGLYCAEMIA in children may cause listlessness, inattention, pallor, stupor, convulsions and coma, which may be accompanied by tachycardia and sweating. Such non-specific symptoms as cyanotic attacks, reluctance to feed, irritability, convulsions, jittery limb movements and depression of the Moro reflex may occur in the hypoglycaemic newborn infant. A major part of these clinical patterns ari...
متن کاملHypoglycaemia in infancy and childhood.
levels in accident and emergency departments. In our own group-though at present the junior medical staffing is relatively satisfactory for the two major departments which provide a continuous casualty service-there have been occasions over the past nine months when the service has been maintained only by the employment of locum tenens, clinical assistants, or by the payment of extra duty allow...
متن کاملDiagnosis of ketotic hypoglycaemia of childhood.
Habbick, B. F., McNeish, A. S., and Stephenson, J. B. P. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 295. Diagnosis of ketotic hypoglycaemia of childhood. Twenty cases of ketotic hypoglycaemia have been diagnosed in one medical unit in the past 8 years. Typically the children were 'dysmature' at birth, with a history suggesting hypoglycaemia in the first 36 hours of life, and they have remain...
متن کاملRecognition, assessment and management of hypoglycaemia in childhood.
Hypoglycaemia is frequent in children and prompt management is required to prevent brain injury. In this article we will consider hypoglycaemia in children after the neonatal period. The most common causes are diabetes mellitus and idiopathic ketotic hypoglycaemia (IKH) but a number of endocrine disorders and inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) need to be excluded. Elucidation of the diagnosis r...
متن کاملSurgical treatment of hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia in infancy and childhood.
Despite a greater awareness of hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia, one in three patients has some degree of mental retardation by the time the diagnosis is made. The diagnosis is established by demonstrating high plasma insulin concentrations during an episode of hypoglycaemia. Twenty one hyperinsulinaemic infants and children were referred for surgical treatment after failing to respond to medica...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.42.491.555