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Abstract
A CASE OF NEONATAL DIABETES MELLITUS DETECTED
BY POOR WEIGHT GAIN
Hirota TAKASHIMA 1 , 2 ), Yoko TSURUOKA 1 , 3 ), Keita NUMASAWA 1 ),
Kentaro SHIGA 1 ), Tohru YORIFUJI 4 )
1)
Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center
2)
Department of Pediatrics, Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital
3)
4)
Department of Pediatrics, Fujisawa City Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Children’s Medical Center, Osaka City General Hospital
A boy was born at 38 weeks and 6 days of gestation, weighing 3,116 g. He was discharged from the hospital at the
age of 7 days and weighed 2,914 g at the time of discharge. At the age of 9 days, when a public health nurse visited
him, he had lost weight, weighing 2,845 g. He was therefore seen by a doctor. He was found to have marked
hyperglycemia with blood glucose of 658 mg/dL and was referred to our hospital for detailed examination and
treatment. The patient was diagnosed as having neonatal diabetes mellitus and started on treatment with intravenous
continuous insulin infusion, and the blood glucose level improved. Gene analysis requested at the time of admission
later showed abnormal 6q24 methylation. There are various causes of poor weight gain in neonates, and measurement
of the blood glucose level is an essential test in the process of investigating the cause. Although low blood glucose
levels are often predicted to reflect poor nutritional status, it is important to keep in mind that neonatal diabetes
mellitus may be detected by hyperglycemia in rare cases, as in the present case.
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