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. 2017 Aug 29;2017:9. doi: 10.1186/s13633-017-0048-8

Table 2.

Diagnostic criteria for patients with HH [1, 101]

Diagnostic criteria • Plasma glucose <3 mmol/l with:
• Detectable serum insulin
• Detectable C-peptide (In endogenous HH)
• Suppressed/low serum ketone bodies
• Suppressed/low serum fatty acids
Supportive evidences (when diagnosis is in doubt or difficult): • Glucose infusion rate > 8 mg/kg/min
• Positive glycaemic (>1.5 mmol/L) response to intramuscular/ intravenous glucagon
• Positive glycaemic response to a subcutaneous/intravenous dose of octreotide
• Low serum levels of IGFBP1 [insulin negatively regulates the expression of IGFBP1]
• Suppressed branch chain (leucine, isoleucine and valine) amino acids
• Provocation tests (leucine loading or exercise testing) may be needed in some patients
• Supressed/undetectable urine ketone
• Normal lactic acid
• Normal plasma hydroxybutyrylcarnitinea
• Normal ammoniab
• Appropriate counterregulatory hormone responsec
 -Cortisol > 20 mcg/dl (500 nmol/l)
 -Growth hormone > 7 ng/ml
 In the neonatal period if the hypoglycaemia persists for >48 h this will require investigation

aElevated in HH due to HADH gene mutation, bElevated in hyperinsulinism-hyperammonemia syndrome (HI-HA) due to GLUD1 gene mutation, cCounterregulatory hormone response may be blunted in spontaneous, particularly recurring hypoglycaemia