Severe autoimmune hypoglycemia with insulin antibodies necessitating plasmapheresis

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-54

  Yaturu, Subhashini ^a   DePrisco, Claudio ^a   Lurie, Aubrey ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; INSULIN; INSULIN ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; INSULIN ANTIBODIES; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREDNISONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242886748     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.10.1.49     Document Type: Article

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