Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center Patient Stories

It was only after Aliza’s parents brought her to CHOP that she received expert care for her two diagnoses: Turner syndrome and hyperinsulinism.

With a dual diagnosis of two genetic conditions, Dominic’s family came from California to CHOP during the pandemic to ensure he got the specialized care he needed.

Stella was cared for by the expert team from CHOP’s Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center, the most active and experienced center of its type in the world.

The partnership between her doctors at The Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at CHOP and her local medical team in California is keeping Alina healthy and allowing her to be a typical toddler. However, her beginning was anything but typical.

Adam’s hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia wasn’t well controlled until he came from Chicago to CHOP. Now he’s participating in research to help find a better treatment for HA.

A CHOP research study seeks to even out the ups and downs of post-pancreatectomy diabetes. Jenny, who has hyperinsulinism, can’t wait for the results.

The rare is commonplace at CHOP, and for children with extremely low blood sugar from hyperinsulinism, that expertise changes lives, as Ben’s family learned.

Congenital hyperinsulinism is rare — 1 in 50,000 births — and Paige had a rare type of HI. But CHOP’s expertise allowed her to be cured.

The combination of a barking dog, an alert local endocrinologist, and the experts at CHOP’s Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center gave Adriana the best result possible: a cure.

Alaya's family traveled from North Carolina seeking the expertise of CHOP’s Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center. She became the 500th baby to have a pancreatectomy at CHOP.