Department of Endocrinology, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Case Report
An Insulin Resistance Case Report: Uncontrolled Hyperglycaemia in type 1 Diabetic Patient Post COVID-19 Infection
Author(s): Yousef Almehrzi*, Majdi Al Najjar and Mohammed Alnuaimi
COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has spread to become a pandemic with over 100 million confirmed cases and still growing. The infectious nature and hence, high hospitalization rates and intensive care admissions are resulting in high mortality rates. Alarmingly, COVID-19 infection and virus-induced respiratory dysfunction poses a serious threat to patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, Asthma, COPD and obesity. COVID-19 patients with diabetes show higher complication and mortality rate than patients without diabetes. Transient non-severe increased insulin requirement in patients hospitalized for medical conditions such as sepsis or myocardial infarction is a well-known phenomenon. However, extremely high-dose insulin requirement remains a very rarely reported entity, but this.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-6156.21.12.889
