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ketoacidosis

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ketoacidosis [‚kēd·ō‚as·ə′dō·səs]
(medicine)


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In fact, a month before the fracture, she had been hospitalized for a coma related to ketoacidosis that lasted eight days.
Patients are advised not to take Glumetza(TM) if they have kidney problems, heart failure that is treated with medicine, or have a condition called metabolic acidosis, including diabetic ketoacidosis, which should be treated with insulin.
The keys to management are reversal of the underlying cause of immunocompromise, be it diabetic ketoacidosis or neutropenia, and appropriate antifungal therapy and surgical debridement of the involved tissues.
 
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