title: Evaluation, Medical Therapy, and Course of Adult Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: A Case Series.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the evaluation and treatment of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in adults who had undergone gastric bypass surgery. A small number of patients who undergo Roux-en-Y bypass surgery develop postprandial hypoglycemia in the absence of dumping. In some cases, such patients have been treated with pancreatectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the demographics, diagnostic results, response to medical therapy, and subsequent course of 6 referral patients with post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass hypoglycemia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Characteristic clinical and metabolic parameters consistent with hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia were identified. Parameters were similar for both spontaneous and glucose-challenge-induced hypoglycemia. In the context of exclusively postprandial symptoms, simultaneous glucose ≤55 mg/dL, insulin ≥17 μU/mL, C peptide ≥3.0 ng/mL, and insulin to glucose ratio >0.3 were associated with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. Five of 6 patients improved on therapy consisting of dietary modification plus either calcium channel blockade, acarbose, or both. Two patients have remained on therapy for 12 to 15 months. The nonresponder was atypical and had had hypoglycemic events for several decades. Three treated patients were subsequently observed to have undergone partial or complete remission from hypoglycemic episodes after 2 to 37 months of therapy. None of the 6 have undergone pancreatectomy, and none have evidence of insulinoma. Invasive diagnostic procedures were of limited utility.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a subset of patients with post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, medical management can be efficacious and an alternative to partial pancreatectomy. In some cases, the disorder remits spontaneously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mordes
authors.affiliation: Division of Diabetes, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Laura C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Alonso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015390:Gastric Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D006946:Hyperinsulinism / Q000150:complications*; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
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