ESPE Abstracts (2024) 98 P3-61

Health Insurance Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt


• Kamelia, 10 months, known case of neonatal diabetes diagnosed at 5 months of age.

• Presented to our pediatric ICU in Mansoura Health Insurance Hospital by hyperglycemia associated with high grade fever.

• She was diagnosed diabetic at age of 5 months associated with hypothyroidism at initial diagnosis in Mansoura university children hospital.

• Discharged on NPH 3 times daily on 0.7 units/kg/day and on L- thyroxin 50 mg daily. She was controlled till this admission.

• Delayed head support (at 6 months), Mental development was normal.

• Positive consanguinity, Her Father has type 1 diabetes at age of 12 years.

• Her sister was diabetic diagnosed at age of 6 months, died at age of 4 years by DKA and multi-organ failure.

• Initial investigations: Blood glucose: 330 mg/dl ABG: PH: 7 PCO2: 21 HC03:7.3ALT: 148 AST: 258 Creatinine: 1.8

• Protocol of DKA was started, then in the second day patient started to develop jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, severacidotic breathing, skeletal changes.

• Then, the patient developed sever interactable hypoglycemia and there was continuous loss of bicarbonate 7.3 then 6 then 5.

• At this point, we decided to stop insulin with close monitoring of blood glucose which continue to decrease even with stopping insulin.

• GIR calculated started on 8 and increased to 12.

• ALT:7520 AST:3717 I.N.R:1.03 Albumin :2.7 Creatinine: 2.1 Cholesterol:160, TGs:249 Abdominal ultrasound: Hepato-splenomegaly only

• Fasting C-peptide: 0.02

• Her genetics were sent at initial diagnosis, but she missed follow up there, she was WOLCOTT-RALLISON SYNDROME

• She presented to us again after one year also by pneumonia with elevated liver enzymes, passed and treated.

• Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) is a very rare genetic disease, characterized by permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM) with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and other clinical manifestations, including recurrent episodes of acute liver failure

Volume 98

62nd Annual ESPE (ESPE 2024)

Liverpool, UK
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