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A man’s recurrent hypoglycaemia was resolved after a pancreatectomy, his doctors report.
A five-year diagnostic delay sounds terrible unless you know that, for insulinoma, a 4.3-year delay is the average.
That is the takeaway from this Nepalese case report on a 52-year-old with a half-decade history of hypoglycaemic episodes.
The patient presented to ED with a history of somnolent sensorium after experiencing adrenergic symptoms at 3am that morning, his doctors wrote in Clinical Case Reports.
He had a five-year history of recurrent fasting and postprandial hypoglycaemia episodes, with no history of diabetes and no current medications.
