We present the case of a 28-year-old male with a history of alcohol dependency and smoking, who presented with chest pain, shortness of breath, and altered sensorium. He exhibited severe metabolic acidosis, hypoglycemia, low platelet count, and acute kidney injury. Alcoholic ketoacidosis was suspected due to ketonuria, metabolic acidosis, and ketonemia, compounded by electrolyte abnormalities and radiographic findings of pneumonia.
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Clin Toxicol (Phila)
December 2024
Division of Medical Toxicology, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Orv Hetil
December 2024
1 Elméleti Biológiai Kutatócsoport Budapest Magyarország.
Clin Toxicol (Phila)
December 2024
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Acta Diabetol
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Integrated Research and Treatment Center AdiposityDiseases (IFB), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
BMJ Case Rep
November 2024
Family Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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