A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with coexisting hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis is a rare yet potentially life-threatening condition. This report describes a patient with no history of diabetes who presented with DKA and coexisting acute pancreatitis secondary to severe hypertriglyceride...

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Autores principales: Narala, Bhavya, Al-Tkrit, Amna, David, Sharoon, Alataby, Harith, Nfonoyim, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34123664
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14968
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author Narala, Bhavya
Al-Tkrit, Amna
David, Sharoon
Alataby, Harith
Nfonoyim, Jay
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Al-Tkrit, Amna
David, Sharoon
Alataby, Harith
Nfonoyim, Jay
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description Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with coexisting hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis is a rare yet potentially life-threatening condition. This report describes a patient with no history of diabetes who presented with DKA and coexisting acute pancreatitis secondary to severe hypertriglyceridemia. The patient did not respond to standard DKA management or plasmapheresis, developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and eventually expired. 
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spelling pubmed-81916872021-06-10 A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis Narala, Bhavya Al-Tkrit, Amna David, Sharoon Alataby, Harith Nfonoyim, Jay Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with coexisting hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis is a rare yet potentially life-threatening condition. This report describes a patient with no history of diabetes who presented with DKA and coexisting acute pancreatitis secondary to severe hypertriglyceridemia. The patient did not respond to standard DKA management or plasmapheresis, developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and eventually expired.  Cureus 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8191687/ /pubmed/34123664 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14968 Text en Copyright © 2021, Narala et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Narala, Bhavya
Al-Tkrit, Amna
David, Sharoon
Alataby, Harith
Nfonoyim, Jay
A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_full A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_fullStr A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_full_unstemmed A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_short A Fatal Case of Hypertriglyceridemia-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient With Diabetic Ketoacidosis
title_sort fatal case of hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34123664
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14968
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