Abstract

VAZQUEZ, Marcos A.; MALVETTI MAFFEI, Victoria  and  LOPEZ, Helen. Clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis. Rev. virtual Soc. Parag. Med. Int. [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.1, pp.45-48. ISSN 2312-3893.  https://doi.org/10.18004/rvspmi/2312-3893/2014.01(01)45-048.

The diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is one of the severe acute complications of diabetes mellitus. Most patients with DKA have type 1 autoimmune diabetes but patients with type 2 diabetes are also at risk of suffering it during the catabolic stress of an acute disease like a traumatism, surgery or infection. We present a series of twenty cases with DM2 in whom DKA was diagnosed. All were women with a mean age of 62 years, being infection the main cause. The moderate clinical form was predominant (85%).

Keywords : type 2diabetes mellitus; diabetic ketoacidosis.

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