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  • Title: Reversal of pentamidine-induced hypoglycaemia with oral diazoxide.
    Author: Fitzgerald DB, Young IS.
    Journal: J Trop Med Hyg; 1984 Feb; 87(1):15-9. PubMed ID: 6371261.
    Abstract:
    Hypoglycaemia is a common and occasionally life-threatening complication of therapy with pentamidine isethionate. We observed inappropriately elevated insulin levels in a patient with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and pentamidine-induced hypoglycaemia. Oral diazoxide was effective in reversing the marked hypoglycaemia. Pentamidine may exert its hypoglycaemic effect by stimulating insulin secretion from the pancreas.
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