Pediatric Diabetes

Pediatrics

This book chapter, titled 'Pediatric Diabetes', is part of the Contemporary Endocrinology series. It is edited by Benjamin Udoka Nwosu and Ambika P. Ashraf, with Leonid Poretsky and Alyson K. Myers serving as series editors. The content addresses the complexities of diabetes in children, including genetic causes like mutations in the insulin receptor gene (INSR) leading to conditions such as Donohue syndrome and Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome. It also details common clinical presentations of neonatal diabetes (NDM), such as polyuria, polydipsia, weight loss, and dehydration, and touches upon diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). The document appears to be a comprehensive review or textbook chapter on the subject.