Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Gaziantep Children's Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Division of Pediatric Infection Diasese, Gaziantep Children's Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Ann Afr Med. 2023 Jul-Sep;22(3):388-391. doi: 10.4103/aam.aam_250_21.
Two 8-year-old girls were admitted to the emergency department with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) approximately 10 days apart. The patients with resistant severe acidosis and high infection parameters were diagnosed with COVID-19 by real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test. Accompanying pneumonia was observed in one of the patients. Here, we aimed to discuss the difficulties in the management of patients with a new diagnosis of DKA with COVID-19 infection. In addition, we wanted to emphasize that COVID-19 infection may be effective in the development of diabetes in patients with a genetic predisposition.
两名 8 岁女孩大约相隔 10 天因糖尿病酮症酸中毒(DKA)被收入急诊科。两名患者均存在严重酸中毒且感染参数较高,通过实时逆转录聚合酶链反应检测诊断为 COVID-19 感染。其中一名患者伴有肺炎。在这里,我们旨在讨论管理新发 DKA 合并 COVID-19 感染患者时的困难。此外,我们想强调 COVID-19 感染可能在遗传易感性患者中导致糖尿病的发生。