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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
Volume 161, Issue 6, Pages 351-353Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-002-0931-y
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We describe a patient with Fanconi-Bickel syndrome diagnosed by clinical manifestations and the identification of a novel mutation in the GLUT 2 gene. She was initially diagnosed with neonatal diabetes mellitus due to hyperglycaemia and glycosuria at 3 days of life. In addition, newborn screening for galactosaemia revealed hypergalactosaemia. Thereafter, she was managed with lactose-free milk and insulin therapy. However, she failed to grow and her liver became progressively enlarged. Her liver function deteriorated with increased prothrombin time. A liver biopsy done at age 9 months showed micronodular cirrhosis with marked fatty changes and she succumbed to hepatic failure with pneumonia at 10 months of age. DNA sequencing analysis of the GLUT 2 gene using her genomic DNA revealed a novel mutation in codon 5, lysine5 stop(K5X).
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