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Endocrine System Diseases > Diabetes Mellitus > Diabetes Complications > Diabetic Ketoacidosis
... > Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Glucose Metabolism Disorders > Diabetes Mellitus > Diabetes Complications > Diabetic Ketoacidosis
... > Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Acid-Base Imbalance > Acidosis > Ketosis > Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Preferred term

Diabetic Ketoacidosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Acidoses, Diabetic
  • Acidosis, Diabetic
  • Diabetic Acidoses
  • Diabetic Acidosis
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis, DKA
  • Diabetic Ketoses
  • Diabetic Ketosis
  • DKA Diabetic Ketoacidoses
  • DKA Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  • Ketoacidosis, Diabetic
  • Ketoacidosis, DKA Diabetic
  • Ketoses, Diabetic
  • Ketosis, Diabetic

Scope note

  • A life-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus, primarily of TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS with severe INSULIN deficiency and extreme HYPERGLYCEMIA. It is characterized by KETOSIS; DEHYDRATION; and depressed consciousness leading to COMA.

History note

  • 92; KETOSIS, DIABETIC was heading 1975-91 (see under ACIDOSIS, DIABETIC 1975-90); ACIDOSIS, DIABETIC was heading 1966-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016883

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