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Case Reports
. 1993 Apr;36(4):352-7.
doi: 10.1007/BF00400240.

Congenital absence of insulin cells in a neonate with diabetes mellitus and mutase-deficient methylmalonic acidaemia

D Blum  1 , H Dorchy, T Mouraux, E Vamos, Y Mardens, A Kumps, C De Prez, P Heimann, B Fowler, R Baumgartner, et al.
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Congenital absence of insulin cells in a neonate with diabetes mellitus and mutase-deficient methylmalonic acidaemia

D Blum et al. Diabetologia. 1993 Apr.

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  • Diabetologia 1993 Dec;36(12):1332

Abstract

We report on a female neonate with diabetes mellitus and methylmalonic acidaemia, who died at age 16 days. Using immunocytochemistry, electron microscopy and in situ hybridisation, we were unable to demonstrate any insulin cells in the pancreatic islets. Methylmalonic acidaemia was caused by a methylmalonyl coenzyme A mutase apoenzyme defect. The metabolic crisis of the methylmalonic acidaemia aggravated the diabetes and may explain the failure of insulin therapy. Our results suggest that the infant suffered from a congenital absence of beta cells associated with a genetically transmitted mutase apoenzyme defect.

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