Aetiology
Causes include:
Ketotic, transient neonatal hypoglycaemia:
- small for dates
- prematurity
- hypothermia
- trauma
- cerebral hypoxia
- sepsis
- starvation
Transient, non-ketotic hypoglycaemia:
- diabetic mother
- severe rhesus isoimmunisation
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Persistent neonatal and early infant hypoglycaemia:
- enzyme defects:
- glycogen storage diseases
- maple syrup urine disease
- galactosaemia
- fructose intolerance
- hormone deficiency - growth hormone, glucocorticoids
- hyperinsulinaemic state:
- nesidioblastosis
- persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy
Related pages
- Small for dates
- Preterm delivery
- Hypothermia in neonates
- Asphyxia at birth
- Foetal infections
- Neonatal sepsis
- Diabetes and pregnancy
- Rhesus disease
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Glycogen storage diseases
- Maple syrup urine disease
- Galactosaemia
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Nesidioblastosis
- Persistent hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia of infancy
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