leucine-induced hypoglycemia; leucine-sensitive hypoglycemia of infancy
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Epidemiology
- rare cause of hypoglycemia
Genetics
- associated with defects in ABCC8
Clinical manifestations
- symptomatic hypoglycemia is provoked by high protein feedings
Laboratory
- serum glucose low
Diagnostic procedures
- hypoglycemia can be elicited by administration of oral or intravenous infusions of a single amino acid, leucine