Catalog

Leprechaunism

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Leprechaunism – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/620744510

Leprechaunism is a congenital form of extreme insulin resistance characterised by intrauterine and mainly postnatal severe growth retardation and a characteristic dysmorphic facies (resembling that of the 'leprechauns' in Irish folk traditions), atrophic subcutaneous adipose tissue (lipoatrophy) and muscular hypotrophy.