Pasireotide in Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia

Summary

This is a small controlled pilot study to assess the effect of subcutaneous pasireotide on preventing hypoglycemia due to hyperinsulinism, including congenital hyperinsulinism and insulinoma.

Timeline

Start

2017-04

Primary completion

2018-01

Completion

2018-04

Publications

• Background Schmid HA, Brueggen J. Effects of somatostatin analogs on glucose homeostasis in rats. J Endocrinol. 2012 Jan;212(1):49-60. doi: 10.1530/JOE-11-0224. Epub 2011 Oct 10.
• Background Braun M. The somatostatin receptor in human pancreatic beta-cells. Vitam Horm. 2014;95:165-93. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800174-5.00007-7.
• Background Boscaro M, Ludlam WH, Atkinson B, Glusman JE, Petersenn S, Reincke M, Snyder P, Tabarin A, Biller BM, Findling J, Melmed S, Darby CH, Hu K, Wang Y, Freda PU, Grossman AB, Frohman LA, Bertherat J. Treatment of pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease with the multireceptor ligand somatostatin analog pasireotide (SOM230): a multicenter, phase II trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Jan;94(1):115-22. doi: 10.1210/jc.2008-1008. Epub 2008 Oct 28.
• Background Yorifuji T. Congenital hyperinsulinism: current status and future perspectives. Ann Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2014 Jun;19(2):57-68. doi: 10.6065/apem.2014.19.2.57. Epub 2014 Jun 30.
• Background de Heide LJ, Laskewitz AJ, Apers JA. Treatment of severe postRYGB hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia with pasireotide: a comparison with octreotide on insulin, glucagon, and GLP-1. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2014 May-Jun;10(3):e31-3. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2013.11.006. Epub 2013 Dec 4. No abstract available.
• Background Quinn TJ, Yuan Z, Adem A, Geha R, Vrikshajanani C, Koba W, Fine E, Hughes DT, Schmid HA, Libutti SK. Pasireotide (SOM230) is effective for the treatment of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) in a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) conditional knockout mouse model. Surgery. 2012 Dec;152(6):1068-77. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.08.021. Epub 2012 Oct 24.
• Background Tirosh A, Stemmer SM, Solomonov E, Elnekave E, Saeger W, Ravkin Y, Nir K, Talmor Y, Shimon I. Pasireotide for malignant insulinoma. Hormones (Athens). 2016 Apr;15(2):271-276. doi: 10.14310/horm.2002.1639.
• Background Eigler T, Ben-Shlomo A. Somatostatin system: molecular mechanisms regulating anterior pituitary hormones. J Mol Endocrinol. 2014 Aug;53(1):R1-19. doi: 10.1530/JME-14-0034. Epub 2014 Apr 29.
• Background Hansen L, Hartmann B, Mineo H, Holst JJ. Glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion is influenced by perfusate glucose concentration and by a feedback mechanism involving somatostatin in isolated perfused porcine ileum. Regul Pept. 2004 Apr 15;118(1-2):11-8. doi: 10.1016/j.regpep.2003.10.021.

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