This is the first reported case of stress cardiomyopathy complicating diabetic ketoacidosis, highlighting a potential metabolic mechanism involving ketone utilization in the stressed myocardium.
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Alerts clinicians to possible stress cardiomyopathy in DKA; leaves open myocardial ketone utilization as mechanism.
Nanda et al. (2009) studied this question.
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