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Newly diagnosed t1d with COVID

  • 1.  Newly diagnosed t1d with COVID

    Posted 05-21-2020 14:42
    Questions have come concerning patients presenting with DKA and discovered to have COVID (or the other order).  Some have had very significant hypokalemia which is resistant to treatment.  Question is why and best treatment.  Patients are not responding to usual treatment 


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    Samuel Wentworth DMSC
    HENDRICKS REGNL HEALTH
    DANVILLE IN
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  • 2.  RE: Newly diagnosed t1d with COVID

    Posted 05-22-2020 12:35
    Hypokalemia and Clinical Implications in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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    Hypokalemia and Clinical Implications in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
    BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2 has caused a series of COVID-19 globally. SARS-CoV-2 binds angiotensin I converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and causes prevalent hypokalemia METHODS: The patients with COVID-19 were classified into severe hypokalemia, hypokalemia, and normokalemia group. The study aimed to determine the relationship between hypokalemia and clinical features, the underlying causes and clinical implications of hypokalemia.
    View this on medRxiv >
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.27.20028530v1.full.pdf+html


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    Bobbie Starks MN, MSN
    HUTCHINSON REGIONAL MEDICAL
    HUTCHINSON KS
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  • 3.  RE: Newly diagnosed t1d with COVID

    Posted 05-22-2020 18:22
    Thank you

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