The determinants of the degree of metabolic decompensation at the diagnosis of type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and the possible role of diabetic ketoacidosis in the preservation and recovery of residual P cell function were examined in 745 Finnish children and adolescents. Children younger than 2 years or older than 10 years of age were found to be more susceptible to diabet...

The article by Raut and Maheshwari[1] is indeed interesting. However, the suggestion made by the authors on the usefulness of empagliflozin in diabetic perioperative patients needs contemplation from the point of patient safety and risk factors, as it causes euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis. Moreover, in May 2015, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning of ketoacidosis with the use o...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is one of the most common fatal complications diabetes and often associated with severe underlying disease. The COVID-19 infection follows an intense course in patients comorbidities such as diabetes. Herein we presented a case diabetic caused by infection.

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Diabetic ketoacidosis in patients receiving tacrolimus in the post-transplant setting is rare. We describe two such cases in solid-organ transplant recipients. The first patient, a 17-year-old male, presented with severe diabetic ketoacidosis and was managed with intravenous fluids and insulin infusion. He was a known case of Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome and had received a renal transpla...