ESPE Abstracts

Dominant activating mutations in GCK gene are known to be the cause of congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). Patients with GCK mutations can have a wide range of clinical presentations, varying from asymptomatic adult onset hypoglycemia to medically unresponsive severe neonatal onset HI. Overall, 5 of 214 (2.3%) patients diagnosed with HI over the last 10 years in Russia were found to carry pathogenic variants of GCK gene. Only 2 of these 5 patients ...