Persistent neonatal hypoglycaemia due to glucagon deficiency.
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 53 (5) , 422-424
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.53.5.422
Abstract
Glucagon deficiency was shown in a newborn baby suffering from persistent severe hypoglycemia with convulsions. Treatment with a Zn-protamine-glucagon injection twice daily resulted in normal blood glucose levels. Motor development was delayed.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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