Detection of surreptitious administration of analog insulin to an 8-week-old infant

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Green, Rebecca P ^a   Hollander, Abby S ^a   Thevis, Mario ^b   Thomas, Andreas ^b   Dietzen, Dennis J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemia; Immunoassay; Insulin; Mass spectrometry; Munchausen by proxy

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; INSULIN LISPRO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; TACHYCARDIA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS;

C-PEPTIDE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLUCAGON; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INFANT; INSULIN; MALE; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 77951800146     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2273     Document Type: Article

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