Case Report

Case Report: Nesidioblastosis in Adult Patient

Authors: Fernando Freire Lisboa, Luis Fernando Nunes Ferreira, Gabriel Diniz Câmara Dantas, Pedro Arthur Nascimento da Silva.

DOI: 10.33425/3065-7059-1008

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Abstract

Nesidioblastosis is a rare disease among adults, affecting between 0.5 and 5.0% of the age group, causing persistent organic hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. The frequent clinical presentation is postprandial hypoglycemia, and the preoperative diagnosis is challenging and through exclusion criteria, since there is no clinical context or highly specific exams. We present a clinical case of a male patient, 47 years old, diagnosed with Nesidioblastosis, in 2014, after frequent loss of consciousness and without association with fasting. The patient was submitted to Frey's technique, after failure with other procedures. The method adopted proved to be effective for correcting the patient's endocrine problem, as well as without sequelae to the gastrointestinal tract.

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