Effect of ephedrine in ketotic hypoglycaemia. The effect of oral ephedrine administration on a child with ketotic hypoglycaemia who had not responded to dietary measures alone was studied. After ephedrine administration, the hypoglycaemia developing after ketogenic stress was less profound and was substantially delayed. The impaired glycaemic response to glucagon during hypoglycaemia, character...

The hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic syndrome, first reported in 1957,' is being diagnosed with greater frequency.' Several cases have been reported of this syndrome being precipitated by treatment with diuretics, especially thiazide diuretics and frusemide.3-9 Diuretic treatment lasted from 15 days4 to 4 years" before the syndrome developed. We reviewed the case notes of a consecutive series ...

We report a patient with hyperosmolar non-ketotic hyperglycaemia who presented with chorea and septic arthritis on his knee. The chorea resolved completely and quickly with correction of the metabolic disturbance, only to return just as quickly when his metabolic disturbance subsequently deteriorated as a result of overwhelming septicaemia, suggesting coexisting cerebral ischaemia, although the...

OBJECTIVE To study regional blood flow of the striatum in non-ketotic hyperglycaemic choreic patients. METHODS Brain SPECT was performed with intravenous injection of 20 mCi 99mTc hexamethylpropylene amineoxime in six non-ketotic hyperglycaemic choreic patients and 10 age matched patients with a similar level of hyperglycaemia without chorea as a control. The focal perfusion defects were anal...

Generally, cardiac arrest due to pulseless electrical activity has a poor outcome, except when reversible factors such as acute hyperkalaemia are identified and managed early. Hyperosmolar diabetic non-ketotic coma may lead to acute hyperkalaemia. Hyperosmolar diabetic non-ketotic coma is a metabolic emergency usually seen in elderly non-insulin dependent diabetics, characterized by severe hype...

Received July 10, 2001 Abstract Non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia (NKH) is a rare metabolic disease in Hong Kong. Only one case was reported in Hong Kong from literature search of the past ten years. We report a case with non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia who showed all the classical prenatal and postnatal clinical, biochemical and electroencephalographic features. Dextromethorphan, a non-competitive N-M...

BACKGROUND The clinical features of atherosclerotic lesions in ketosis-onset diabetes are largely absent. We aimed to compare the characteristics of lower limb atherosclerotic lesions among type 1, ketosis-onset and non-ketotic type 2 diabetes. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed in newly diagnosed Chinese patients with diabetes, including 53 type 1 diabetics with positive islet-ass...

This study identified differences in plasma metabolites among three groups of dairy cows: type I ketotic (K1), type II ketotic (K2), and healthy control cows (C). 50 cows with two or three parities were selected at 7–28 days postpartum. Cows were classified as type I ketotic (K1, 20 cows), type II ketotic (K2, 20 cows), or healthy control cows (C, 10 cows). Plasma metabolomic profiles were anal...