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ea0038p83 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2015

Artifactual hypoglycaemia: lesson from a patient with unreliable finger-prick glucose due to absent finger tips

Ang An Shing , Lee Daphne , Baskar Varadarajan

Pseudohypoglycemia has been reported in patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon, peripheral vascular disease and shock and may result from increased glucose extraction by the tissues because of low capillary flow and increased glucose transit time. We present a frail and comorbid 76-year-old lady with a long standing history of Rheumatoid arthritis/systemic sclerosis/systemic lupus erythematosis overlap syndrome complicated by Raynaud’s phenomenon. She was on long-term st...