TY - BOOK AU - Mostafa Abdelmegied Ahmed AU - Amany Ibrahim Mohamed , AU - Mohamed Hesham Safouh , AU - Mona Mamdouh Hassan , TI - Diabetic ketoacidosis precipitating factors, morbidity and mortality in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mostafa Abdelmegied Ahmed , KW - 6-phosphate KW - Chest X-ray KW - Fructose N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -