Late Diagnosis of Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) 12 With Catastrophic Consequences.

ABSTRACT: Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by autosomal dominant monogenic non-ketogenic diabetes mellitus, usually with early-onset, with a prevalence of 1-5% of all diabetes cases. A 72-year-old female was admitted with intestinal occlusion, anorexia, vomiting, and weight loss for four months. Medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic pancreatitis with abnormal pancreatic development, and acute obstructive jaundice due to a mass in the head of the pancreas with duodenum extension four months before. Assuming surgically unresectable pancreatic neoplasm, digestive bypass surgery was performed. The pathologic examination of surgical specimens was negative for neoplasm. Abdominal imaging showed the panc

SUBMITTER: Carreira NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7935225 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature