Hypoglycaemia disappeared after transarterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma

Authors

  • Kanchana Ngaosuwan
  • Piyanant Chonmitree

Keywords:

hypoglycemia, hepatocellular carcinoma, transarterial chemoembolization

Abstract

Non-Islet Cell tumour hypoglycaemia associated with hepatocellular carcinoma is an infrequent finding in clinical practice and provides a worse prognosis. The causes of hypoglycaemia are tumour production of insulin-like growth factor II and tumour uptake of glucose. There are many treatment options to control hypoglycaemia and some are unsuccessful. We thereby report a case of hepatocellular carcinoma, in which hypoglycaemia was successfully controlled by a first episode of transarterial chemoembolization 

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