Relapsing Episodes of Loss of Consciousness in a Patient With Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hypoglycemia is common in people with diabetes treated with insulin or oral medications such as sulphonylureas or other secretagogues, and constitutes a relatively rare paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with a variety of mesenchymal or epithelial tumors. In this case report we present a 51-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Vagionas, Anastasios, Tigas, Stelios, Oikonomou, Panagiotis, Pentheroudakis, George, Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki, Pavlidis, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147406
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon790w
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author Vagionas, Anastasios
Tigas, Stelios
Oikonomou, Panagiotis
Pentheroudakis, George
Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki
Pavlidis, Nicholas
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Tigas, Stelios
Oikonomou, Panagiotis
Pentheroudakis, George
Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki
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description Hypoglycemia is common in people with diabetes treated with insulin or oral medications such as sulphonylureas or other secretagogues, and constitutes a relatively rare paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with a variety of mesenchymal or epithelial tumors. In this case report we present a 51-year-old patient with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma and persistent, severe, symptomatic hypoglycemia and we discuss management options and review the relevant medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-56497702017-11-16 Relapsing Episodes of Loss of Consciousness in a Patient With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vagionas, Anastasios Tigas, Stelios Oikonomou, Panagiotis Pentheroudakis, George Malamou-Mitsi, Vassiliki Pavlidis, Nicholas World J Oncol Case Report Hypoglycemia is common in people with diabetes treated with insulin or oral medications such as sulphonylureas or other secretagogues, and constitutes a relatively rare paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with a variety of mesenchymal or epithelial tumors. In this case report we present a 51-year-old patient with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma and persistent, severe, symptomatic hypoglycemia and we discuss management options and review the relevant medical literature. Elmer Press 2014-12 2014-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5649770/ /pubmed/29147406 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon790w Text en Copyright 2014, Vagionas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pavlidis, Nicholas
Relapsing Episodes of Loss of Consciousness in a Patient With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649770/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon790w
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