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Critical illness hyperglycemia: is failure of the beta-cell to meet extreme insulin demand indicative of dysfunction?

In the recent study by Preissig and Rigby in Critical Care, the authors argue that critical illness hyperglycemia in children with both respiratory failure and cardiovascular failure is due to a primary failure of the beta-cell. However, alternative explanations that the failure is secondary to an i...

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Autores principales: Steil, Garry M, Agus, Michael SD
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19435475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7756