KROK 1 2021 – Question 74 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient was hospitalized in a comatose state. The patient has a 5-year-long history of diabetes mellitus type 2. Objectively, his respiration is noisy, deep, with acetone breath odor. Blood glucose is 15.2 mmol/L, ketone bodies – 100 micromol/L. These signs are characteristic of the following diabetes complication:
- A. Hepatic coma
- B. Ketoacidotic coma
- C. Hypoglycemic coma
- D. Hyperglycemic coma
- E. Hyperosmolar coma
Hint
Combine the deep noisy breathing, the acetone breath and the ketone bodies in the blood: which acute metabolic complication of diabetes with acidosis do they point to?
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