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Ketoacidosis in a patient with type 2 diabetes - flatbush diabetes
1BSc (Hons), MBBS, FACRRM, is a rural procedural GP who teaches in the Esperance site of the Rural Clinical School, University of WA and University of Notre Dame, Western Australia.
Australian Family Physician
|February 18, 2015
Abstract:
There is increasing recognition of a group of patients with type 2 diabetes who can present with ketoacidosis. Most reports have been of patients of African descent; however, the condition has been reported in other groups. This is a case of a Caucasian patient who has had three presentations with ketoacidosis and whose diabetes is not usually insulin-dependent.