Symptomatic cerebral oedema during treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis: effect of adjuvant octreotide infusion

INTRODUCTION: A potentially lethal complication of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children is brain oedema, whether caused by DKA itself or by the therapeutic infusion of insulin and fluids. CASE PRESENTATION: A 10-year old previously healthy boy with DKA became unconscious and apnoeic due to cerebr...

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Autores principales: Seewi, Ora, Vierzig, Anne, Roth, Bernhard, Schönau, Eckhard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20723227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-2-56

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20723227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-2-56

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