{"id":49,"date":"2013-10-14T06:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-10-14T06:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T06:34:50","slug":"insulinoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/insulinoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulinoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tumor of the beta cells of the pancreas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>secretes insulin<\/li>\n<li>Normally beta cells secrete insulin in response to high glucose in the blood stream.<\/li>\n<li>Diagnosis is made with blood tests of low blood glucose, elevated insulin, and elevated proinsulin and C-peptide levels.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Jobs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Apple <\/a>died of Metastatic Insulinoma.<\/li>\n<li>rarely malignant, <strong>metastasis and primary usually present concomitantly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>finding insulinoma <strong>near the pancreatic duct &#8211; this insulinoma might be malignant<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Whipples Triad suggests insulinoma<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Symptoms of Hypoglycemia<\/li>\n<li>Low plasma glucose<\/li>\n<li>Relief of symptoms when glucose is raised to normal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tumor of the beta cells of the pancreas secretes insulin Normally beta cells secrete insulin in response to high glucose in the blood stream. Diagnosis is made with blood tests of low blood glucose, elevated insulin, and elevated proinsulin and C-peptide levels. Steve Jobs of Apple died of Metastatic Insulinoma. rarely malignant, metastasis and primary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/insulinoma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insulinoma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[59,58],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insulinoma","tag-pancreas-cancer","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}