Hypoglycaemia in chronic renal failure

ABSTRACT

Persistant symptomatic hypoglycaemia developed in a 26-year-old woman with chronic renal failure. Several factors, including the use of sulfametethroxaole, recent peritoneal dialysis, and poor nutrition may have combined with defective glycogenosis and gluconeogenesis present in chronic renal failure to play a role in its aetiology. Increased awareness of this condition is necessary because chronic renal failure is common in the Caribbean. (AU)