Title: Too Much Acid in the Blood: Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis<br/>Author: Wesley Oliver<br/><a href='mailto:1911'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e8dd25d-7fff-35a3-970d-c00af0cd7607"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The American Diabetes Association requires a plasma glucose concentration greater than 250 mg/dL to diagnose diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). However, with the new diabetic agents this is not always the case. With the introduction of SGLT2 inhibitors (canagliflozin [Invokana], dapagliflozin [Farxiga], empagliflozin [Jardiance]) there have been reported cases of DKA and patients being euglycemic. </span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e8dd25d-7fff-35a3-970d-c00af0cd7607"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take Home Point</span></span></strong></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e8dd25d-7fff-35a3-970d-c00af0cd7607"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patients with a low/normal blood glucose can still have DKA. Especially if they are taking newer medications, such as the SGLT2 inhibitors.</span></span></p> <div> </div> <div> </div> <fieldset><legend>References</legend>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-9064545a-7fff-c87a-cb52-aa4d3acb1d35"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AE Kitabchi, GE Umpierrez, JM Miles, JN Fisher. Hyperglycemic Crises in Adult Patients With Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2009;32:1335-1343.</span></span></p> <p> <br /> <span id="docs-internal-guid-9064545a-7fff-c87a-cb52-aa4d3acb1d35"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U.S Food and Drug Administration. FDA warns that SGLT2 inhibitors for diabetes may result in a serious condition of too much acid in the blood. </span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/92185/download" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.fda.gov/media/92185/download</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed August 3, 2019.</span></span></p> </fieldset>