A Case of Factitious Hyperglycemia in a Patient on Intravenous Ascorbic Acid

Finger stick blood glucose meters are widely used in outpatient and inpatient settings. However, various factors can affect accuracy of readings from these meters. Here we present a patient who had spurious glucose elevation on these meters while being on intravenous ascorbic acid.

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Autores principales: Sharma, Eliza, Resta, Christine, Park, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7063137
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description Finger stick blood glucose meters are widely used in outpatient and inpatient settings. However, various factors can affect accuracy of readings from these meters. Here we present a patient who had spurious glucose elevation on these meters while being on intravenous ascorbic acid.
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spelling pubmed-59769602018-06-03 A Case of Factitious Hyperglycemia in a Patient on Intravenous Ascorbic Acid Sharma, Eliza Resta, Christine Park, Patricia Case Rep Endocrinol Case Report Finger stick blood glucose meters are widely used in outpatient and inpatient settings. However, various factors can affect accuracy of readings from these meters. Here we present a patient who had spurious glucose elevation on these meters while being on intravenous ascorbic acid. Hindawi 2018-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5976960/ /pubmed/29862091 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7063137 Text en Copyright © 2018 Eliza Sharma 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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title_sort case of factitious hyperglycemia in a patient on intravenous ascorbic acid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7063137
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