Following are differential diagnoses, listed in order of likeliness, for patients presented with hypoglycemia.
- Spurious (eg, storage artifact)
- Neonates (typically <6 weeks of age; normal finding or related to another condition [eg, portosystemic shunt])
- Toy-breed puppy (can occur in healthy puppies when fasting or if no access to nursing)
- Exogenous insulin overdose
- Hepatic failure
- Portosystemic shunt
- Hypoadrenocorticism
- Sepsis
- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome
- Insulinoma
- Xylitol toxicity
- Paraneoplastic syndrome (eg, leiomyoma/leiomyosarcoma, hepatoma)
- High-intensity exercise
- Pituitary dwarfism
- Glycogen storage disease
- Renal glucosuria
- Polycythemia
- Oleander toxicity
- Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine toxicity
- Trypanosoma congolense infection (only in specific geographic regions)
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