ea0073ep67 | Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition | ECE2021
Batool Maria
, Ni Chinneide Ashling
, Tudor Roxana
, Kyaw Tun Tommy
, Sreenan Seamus
, Arumugasamy Mayilone
, McDermott John
A 20-year-old woman, with type 1 diabetes, presented to Emergency Department complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting for 3 days. She reported intermittent non-compliance with insulin therapy. Physical examination revealed epigastric tenderness. Blood glucose was 34.6 mmol/l, blood ketones 7.8 mmol/l, creatinine 131 µmol/l and CRP 31.47 mg/l (< 10). Despite clinical and initial laboratory features suggesting diabetic ketoacidosis, pH was 7.52 (7.327.43), pCO<s...