MODY 2 Diabetes: An Unusual Presentation of Diabetes

MODY 2 Diabetes: An Unusual Presentation of Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus includes a heterogeneous mix of metabolic diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia. Some forms of this illness respond to specific etiological or pathogenic characteristics, but the underlying etiology is unknown. The most common varieties of diabetes mellitus are Type 1 and Type 2, but there are other types. Numerous common polymorphisms (approximately 50 to date) weak...

Spontaneous Urinary Bladder Perforation: An Unusual Presentation of Diabetes Mellitus☆

Spontaneous urinary bladder perforation is a rare event, which requires immediate medical attention due to its extremely high morbidity and mortality. We report a case of a 36-year-old man who presented with acute-onset abdominal pain without any inciting events. His glucose level at the time of presentation was 1107 mg/dL. On initial abdominal imaging, it was believed that he had a large pelvi...

Diabetes melliitus in neurofibromatosis I: an unusual presentation.

First UK survey of paediatric type 2 diabetes and MODY.

AIMS To estimate the UK prevalence of childhood type 2 diabetes and maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY), and distinguish them from each other and from type 1 diabetes. METHODS The British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Clinical Trials/Audit Group undertook a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of all paediatric diabetes centres during 2000, collecting data on all c...

Type 2 diabetes can also be multigenerational like MODY