Infantile cerebral infarction caused by severe diabetic ketoacidosis in new-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus
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Junichi Suzuki
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Kengo Kawamura
,
Masako Aoki
Abstract
Background
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a common complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Infants and children with new-onset T1DM may present with DKA, and the risk of cerebral edema is high in infantile DKA.
What is new?
Neurological deterioration during an episode of DKA is usually attributed to cerebral edema and cerebrovascular accidents. However, cerebral infarction is a very rare complication in infantile DKA.
Case presentation
We describe a rare case of infantile cerebral infarction caused by severe DKA in a patient with new-onset T1DM.
Conclusions
Cerebral infarction is an important intracranial complication in infantile DKA. Careful observation and treatment for DKA during the first 24 h of therapy are necessary in infants with new-onset T1DM because the risk of cerebral infarction is highest during this timeframe.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Mini Review
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- Original Articles
- The distribution of intrafamilial CYP21A2 mutant alleles and investigation of clinical features in Turkish children and their siblings in Southeastern Anatolia
- 3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency newborn screening in a population of 536,008: is routine screening necessary?
- Long non-coding RNA HCP5 serves as a ceRNA sponging miR-17-5p and miR-27a/b to regulate the pathogenesis of childhood obesity via the MAPK signaling pathway
- Once-weekly supervised combined training improves neurocognitive and psychobehavioral outcomes in young patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus
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- Mental health of both child and parents plays a larger role in the health-related quality of life of obese and overweight children
- Near final adult height, and body mass index in overweight/obese and normal-weight children with idiopathic central precocious puberty and treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs
- Effects of vitamin D and estrogen receptor polymorphisms on bone mineral density in adolescents with anorexia nervosa
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