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Ahmet Kaya1, Kagan Gungor, Serdar Karakose
1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Meram Medical Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Abstract:
A 46-year-old nonatopic woman who had been suffering from type 2 diabetes for 17 years was hospitalized at the Endocrinology Department of Selcuk University due to very high glucose levels after recovery from acute hepatitis A infection. She had never used insulin before. After first subcutaneous dose of human regular insulin, severe local allergic reaction developed. Desensitization to insulin was tried. One day later, ketoacidosis developed. Human regular insulin was again subcutaneously injected to the patient. Severe anaphylactic reaction occurred, and in spite of all the medical attempts to save the patient, she died.
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