Spurious hypertriglyceridaemia in unconscious patient
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An unconscious diabetic patient.
Accepted 10 March 1998 A 49-year-old man was transferred to our hospital by ambulance on 25th December 1995, for unconsciousness, hypotension, and hypothermia. The patient was unemployed and living alone. He had been well until a year earlier, when polyuria, polydipsia and weight loss (15 kg/4 months) developed. He had experienced a sore throat and a cough productive of yellowish sputum 4 days ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2320-6012,2320-6071
DOI: 10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20174186