A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Commonly seen in the emergency department, diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially lethal sequela of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. In the adult population, a rare complication of diabetic ketoacidosis is cerebral edema. This case report discusses a 26-year-old male with new onset diabetes mellitus...

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Autores principales: Meaden, Christopher W., Kushner, Beth J., Barnes, Stacey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5884290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5043752
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description Commonly seen in the emergency department, diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially lethal sequela of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. In the adult population, a rare complication of diabetic ketoacidosis is cerebral edema. This case report discusses a 26-year-old male with new onset diabetes mellitus who developed cerebral edema leading to death.
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spelling pubmed-58842902018-05-13 A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis Meaden, Christopher W. Kushner, Beth J. Barnes, Stacey Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Commonly seen in the emergency department, diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially lethal sequela of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. In the adult population, a rare complication of diabetic ketoacidosis is cerebral edema. This case report discusses a 26-year-old male with new onset diabetes mellitus who developed cerebral edema leading to death. Hindawi 2018-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5884290/ /pubmed/29755797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5043752 Text en Copyright © 2018 Christopher W. Meaden et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
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title_full A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_fullStr A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_full_unstemmed A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_short A Rare and Lethal Complication: Cerebral Edema in the Adult Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_sort rare and lethal complication: cerebral edema in the adult patient with diabetic ketoacidosis
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