HYPERINSULINISM (INSULNOMA)
Seventy five percent of patients with
symptoms of hyperinsulinism
have a benign adenomas
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
The lesion occurs most often from the
fourth to seventh decade of
life.
Symptoms may take one of two general forms.
*
Sweating, hunger, weakness,
tachycardia and inward trembling
results from an acute fall of blood sugar.
*
Slower decrease in blood sugar
produces "cerebral" symptoms
such as headache,
mental confusion, visual
disturbances
convulsions and coma.
DIAGNOSIS
Whipple's triad consists of attacks
*
precipitated by fasting or exertion
*
fasting blood sugar below 50 mg/100 ml and
*
symptom relieved by oral or
intravenous administration of
glucose
TREATMENT
Removal of the benign lesion.
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