Question 437 · LEK · Chronic complications
A 29-year-old male patient with diabetes type 1 treated with insulin and poor glycaemic control for 6 months complains of vomiting occurring around 1 hour after a meal. The most probable diagnosis is:
- A. inflammation of the gastric cardia.
- B. gastroparesis.
- C. H. pylori infection.
- D. drug-induced vomiting.
- E. increased intracranial pressure.
Hint
Poorly controlled type 1 diabetes damages autonomic nerves; think of the organ whose emptying depends on vagal innervation.
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