Video Abstracts
Hemifacial Spasm as the Presenting Manifestation of Type 3c Diabetes Mellitus
Authors:
- Ritwik Ghosh
- Dipayan Roy
- Subhankar Chatterjee
- Souvik Dubey
- Bikash Chandra Swaika
- Arpan Mandal
- Julián Benito-LeónEmail Julián Benito-León
Abstract
Background: Type 3c diabetes mellitus (T3cDM) usually occurs because of a variety of exocrine pancreatic diseases with varying mechanisms, which eventually lead to secondary pancreatic endocrine insufficiency i.e. hyperglycemia.
Phenomenology: A man suffering from previously undiagnosed T3cDM presenting with subacute onset hemifacial spasm.
Educational value: This case emphasizes the importance of rapid bedside measurement of capillary blood glucose in patients presenting with acute to subacute onset movements disorders irrespective of their past glycemic status.
- Year: 2021
- Volume: 11
- Page/Article: 14
- DOI: 10.5334/tohm.611
- Submitted on 27 Feb 2021
- Accepted on 10 Apr 2021
- Published on 26 Apr 2021
- Peer Reviewed