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Sustained hypoglycemia with therapeutic use of repaglinide

  • Philippe HantsonEmail author
  • Souleiman El Balkhi
  • Vincent Haufroid
  • Pierre-François Laterre
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Repaglinide is a short-acting insulin secretagogue used for the reduction in postprandial glucose levels in diabetic patients. It has a favorable safety profile with a low risk of hypoglycemia. Prolonged hypoglycemia appears exceptional due to the short serum elimination half-life.

A 67-year-old African man was admitted in the emergency department (ED) with altered consciousness and profound hypoglycemia (48 mg/dl). He had a long-lasting medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus with retinopathy, peripheral arteriopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, arterial hypertension, atrial fibrillation and post-hepatitis C cryoglobulinemia with membranous proliferative glomerulonephritis. He was currently treated with numerous medications (Table  1). The only recent change was the self-administration of a daily dose of 1 mg colchicine over the last month to treat a gout attack. Repaglinide (1 mg b.i.d) had been introduced several months ago, as it was the case for clopidogrel. There was no insulin...
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Authors’ contribution

All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Philippe Hantson, Pierre-François Laterre, Vincent Haufroid and Souleiman El Balkhi. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Philippe Hantson, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The authors declare they have no conflict of interest.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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A written informed consent was obtained from the patient.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Intensive Care, Cliniques St-LucUniversité Catholique de LouvainBrusselsBelgium
  2. 2.Louvain Centre of Toxicology and Applied PharmacologyUniversité Catholique de LouvainBrusselsBelgium
  3. 3.Service de Pharmacologie, Toxicologie et PharmacovigilanceCHU de LimogesLimogesFrance

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