ESPE Abstracts

Effective management of Type 1 diabetes can be challenging. We would like to discuss the management of a 7 year old boy with Type 1 Diabetes, Lissencephaly and global severe developmental delay with medically refractory epilepsy who was introduced to and managed on a Ketogenic diet to try and improve his seizure control. He is non mobile and non-verbal and purely gastrostomy fed. He has diagnoses including. Lissencephaly and band heterotopia, absent corpus callosum, microcepha...

Background: Persistent hypoglycaemia is common in the newborn, due to prematurity or congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) and is associated with the risk of poor neurodevelopmental outcome. Adequate monitoring is critical in prevention but is dependent on frequent blood sampling. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is increasingly being used in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus who also are at risk from hypoglycemia, but use in neonatology remains limited. Pr...