Insulinoma in a Young Female Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report

A case of insulinoma effectively treated with low‐dose diazoxide

“…To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously. 16 In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult. In fact, we first considered the cause of hypoglycemia to be due to a decrease in steroid dose or a side effect of the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combination.…”

“…This was a rare case in which insulinoma and SLE were combined. To our knowledge, there are only a few reports of cases who had both SLE and insulinoma simultaneously 16 . In SLE, steroid therapy often masks hypoglycemia which makes a diagnosis of insulinoma in such cases difficult.…”