KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 93 · KROK (Dentistry)
A comatose patient has been delivered to a hospital. He has a 5-year history of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Objectively: breathing is deep and noisy, there is a smell of acetone around the patient. The concentration of glucose in blood is 15,2 millimole/l, of ketone bodies - 100 micromole/l. These disorders are typical for the following complication of this disease:
- A. Ketoacidotic coma
- B. Hyperglycemic coma
- C. Hepatic coma
- D. Hypoglycemic coma
- E. Hyperosmolar coma
Hint
Link the deep noisy (Kussmaul) breathing and the smell of acetone to the substances accumulating in blood.
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