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ReviewWorld journal of diabetes2021

Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis: A missed diagnosis.

Prashant Nasa, Sandeep Chaudhary, Pavan Kumar Shrivastava, Aanchal Singh

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Review in World journal of diabetes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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76citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Prashant NasaDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai 7832, United Arab Emirates. dr.prashantnasa@hotmail.com.
Sandeep ChaudharyDepartment of Endocrinology, NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai 7832, United Arab Emirates.
Pavan Kumar ShrivastavaDepartment of Internal Medicine, NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai 7832, United Arab Emirates.
Aanchal SinghDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai 7832, United Arab Emirates.
Dubai Hospital · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute life-threatening metabolic emergency characterized by ketoacidosis and relatively lower blood glucose (less than 11 mmol/L). The absence of hyperglycemia is a conundrum for physicians in the emergency department and intensive care units; it may delay diagnosis and treatment causing worse outcomes. Euglycemic DKA is an uncommon diagnosis but can occur in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus. With the addition of sodium/ glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in diabetes mellitus management, euglycemic DKA incidence has increased. The other causes of euglycemic DKA include pregnancy, fasting, bariatric surgery, gastroparesis, insulin pump failure, cocaine intoxication, chronic liver disease and glycogen storage disease. The pathophysiology of euglycemic DKA involves a relative or absolute carbohydrate deficit, milder degree of insulin deficiency or resistance and increased glucagon/insulin ratio. Euglycemic DKA is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a sick patient with a history of diabetes mellitus despite lower blood glucose or absent urine ketones. The diagnostic workup includes arterial blood gas for metabolic acidosis, serum ketones and exclusion of other causes of high anion gap metabolic acidosis. Euglycemic DKA treatment is on the same principles as for DKA with correction of dehydration, electrolytes deficit and insulin replacement. The dextrose-containing fluids should accompany intravenous insulin to correct metabolic acidosis, ketonemia and to avoid hypoglycemia.

Indexed as

Diabetes complicationsDiabetic KetoacidosisKetosisMetabolic acidosisPregnancy in diabetesPregnancy with diabetic ketoacidosisSodium/glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID33995841
PMCPMC8107974
OpenAlexW3157920127

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