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Acute hypoglycemic episodes complicating an acute attack of gastro-enteritis subsided readily with improvement of the underlying disease. In the absence of an organic cause for hypoglycemic attacks, it is suggested that functional hyperinsulism may exist in a subclinical form to become manifest during a period of mental stress and organic inability to take food.
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Saphir, W. Spontaneous hypoglycemia in acute gastro-enteritis. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 20, 138–139 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888426
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02888426