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Many children with hyperinsulinism (HI) have feeding aversion — as many as 60%. The use of tube feedings, and possibly continuous dextrose, to control their blood sugar, among other things (effect of medications, the appetite suppressing effects of insulin, etc.), may exacerbate their aversion to eating by mouth.
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If Leela Morrow, PsyD, the psychologist for the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, gives your child a referral for a neuropsychology evaluation it’s nothing to be afraid of. In fact, it may give your child a roadmap to success.
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Much progress has been made over the last 25 years when it comes to identifying the genetic mutation that is causing a child’s congenital hyperinsulinism (HI).
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Unique endocrinology-neurology collaboration seeks to understand the variation in seizure activity in patients with hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia.
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Unique endocrinology-neurology collaboration seeks to understand the variation in seizure activity in patients with hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia.
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CHOP researchers have shown that a targeted treatment they developed is effective at controlling blood sugar in patients with hyperinsulinism.
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Summer 2021 saw the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia care for two newborn girls who had the focal form of hyperinsulinism (HI).
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Diva De León-Crutchlow, MD, MSCE, assumed the role of Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center in 2013 and was named Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes in 2018.
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Low blood sugar is one of the symptoms of Kabuki syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects multiple systems in the body but can be tricky to diagnose.
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Parents are usually blindsided when they find out that their child has congenital hyperinsulinism (HI), a rare genetic disorder that depresses blood sugar to dangerously low levels.