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Severe hypoglycaemia in a patient with glycogen storage disease type III induced by infectious mononucleosis
1Department of Pediatrics, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan. tokimura@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
|March 28, 2002
Abstract:
A 10-month-old girl with glycogen storage disease type III developed recurrent severe hypoglycaemia induced by infectious mononucleosis. Severe metabolic damage probably reflected a rapid breakdown of liver cells induced by the viral infection.