Diabetic ketoacidosis precipitating factors, morbidity and mortality in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus /
الأسباب و الحالات المرضية و الوفيات فى غيبوبة السكر الحمضية فى مرضى السكرى من النوع الأول فى الأطفال و المراهقين
Mostafa Abdelmegied Ahmed ; Supervised Mohamed Hesham Safouh , Mona Mamdouh Hassan , Amany Ibrahim Mohamed
- Cairo : Mostafa Abdelmegied Ahmed , 2012
- 180 P. : charts ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute, major, life-threatening complication of diabetes. In this study sixty patients were included; history, clinical examination and laboratory investigations were performed, diabetic ketoacidosis is the most serious acute complication of type 1 diabetes. In DEMPU 38.7% are new and 61.3% are known cases, majority are severe but degree of acidosis is more intense in the newly diagnosed cases