Clinical characteristics and phenotype-genotype review of 25 Omani children with congenital hyperinsulinism in infancy. A one-decade single-center experience.

To report the genotype-phenotype characteristics, demographic features and clinical outcome of Omani patients with congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical, biochemical, genotypical, phenotypical characteristics and outcomes of  children with CHI who were presented to the pediatric endocrine team in the Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman between January 2007 and December 2016. Results: Analysis of 25 patients with CHI genetically revealed homozygous mutation in ABCC8 in 23 (92%) patients and 2 patients (8%) with compound heterozygous mutation in ABCC8.