An infant with diabetes mellitus: Is it always T1DM?

Soham Mukherjee; Ashu Rastogi; Radha Venkatesan; Gopi Sundaramoorthi; Viswanathan Mohan; Anil Bhansali

doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2016.07.014

An infant with diabetes mellitus: Is it always T1DM?

Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2017 Mar:125:62-64. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2016.07.014. Epub 2016 Jul 28.

Authors

Soham Mukherjee¹, Ashu Rastogi¹, Radha Venkatesan², Gopi Sundaramoorthi², Viswanathan Mohan², Anil Bhansali³

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
² Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India.
³ Dept. of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. Electronic address: anilbhansaliendocrine@gmail.com.

PMID: 27522937
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2016.07.014

Abstract

Here we describe a 2^1/2month old infant with neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM) who was initially misdiagnosed to have T1DM and initiated on insulin. He was found to have a novel heterozygous mutation Arg992Cys in ABCC 8 gene and successfully switched to oral anti-diabetic drug.

Keywords: Neonatal diabetes novel ABCC 8 gene mutation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Administration, Oral
Diabetes Mellitus / diagnosis*
Diabetes Mellitus / drug therapy
Heterozygote
Humans
Hypoglycemic Agents / therapeutic use*
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Newborn, Diseases / drug therapy*
Male

Substances

Hypoglycemic Agents