Diabetic ketoacidosis mimicking COVID-19 in an adolescent.

Seyed Javad BoskabadiAli SharifpourZakaria ZakariaeiElham Sadat BanimostafaviMostafa Soleymani

Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) may be associated with nonspecific symptoms such as dyspnea, tachycardia, anorexia, and vomiting that are similar to COVID-19. We describe an adolescent who was referred to the emergency department with the above symptoms and died after being discharged, regardless of the differential diagnosis and laboratory findings.

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