ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 64 No 1 (2021), 50–54

Hirata’s Disease: Rare Cause of Hypoglycaemia in Caucasian Male

Kateřina Žibřidová, Barbora Havlínová, Eliška Svobodová, Pavel Žák, Jan Čáp, Filip Gabalec

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2021.9
published online: 14. 04. 2021

abstract

Insulin autoimmune syndrome or Hirata’s disease is an extremely rare condition leading to hypoglycaemia of variable severity due to autoantibodies against insulin. We present the first case documented in the Czech Republic.

keywords: hyperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia; insulin autoantibodies; Hirata’s disease; insulin autoimmune syndrome

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ISSN: 1211-4286
E-ISSN: 1805-9694

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