Prolonged life-threatening hypoglycaemia following dose escalation of octreotide LAR in a patient with malignant polysecreting pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour

This paper details the case of a 77-year-old male with refractory hypoglycaemia due to inoperable metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour (pNET) co-secreting insulin and gastrin. Multiple medical therapies were trialled with limited success, and we describe the complications experienced by our p...

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Autores principales: Abell, Sally K, Teng, Jessie, Dowling, Anthony, Hofman, Michael S, MacIsaac, Richard J, Sachithanandan, Nirupa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bioscientifica Ltd 2015
Materias:
Unusual Effects of Medical Treatment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25755880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EDM-14-0097

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25755880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EDM-14-0097

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