hrp0092p3-93 | Diabetes and Insulin | ESPE2019

Severe and Inaugural Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children: Experience of a Pediatric Tunisian Department

guedria asma , Hadrich Zouhour

Introduction: Ketoacidosis is often indicative of diabetes in children in our Tunisian context. It can be severe and life-threatening, with mortality in the order of 1 to 2%.Methods: We report the results of a retrospective study over a period of 2 years (from 1/01/2017 to 31/12/2018) on all cases of inaugural ketoacidosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children, collected at the pediatric department of Mohamed Tlatl...