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SUBMITTER: Censi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6174196 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Censi Simona S Mian Caterina C Betterle Corrado C
Annals of translational medicine 20180901 17
Autoimmune forms of hypoglycemia are a rare cause of low blood sugar levels among Caucasians, and often go misdiagnosed, exposing patients to lengthy series of pointless, potentially harmful and expensive tests. There are two types of autoimmune hypoglycemia. One is insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS), which is characterized by hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, elevated insulin autoantibody (IAA) titers, no prior exposure to exogenous insulin, and no of pathological abnormalities of the pancreatic is ...[more]