title: [Diabetes or hyperglycemia?].
abstract: An 11-year-old boy developed influenza with glucosuria. An oral glucose test performed during the infection revealed values within the diabetic range. Type 1 diabetes was wrongly diagnosed and insulin therapy initiated. A 19-year-old overweight adolescent developed pneumonia with hyperglycemia but without polydipsia or polyuria. Further investigation revealed incipient type 1 diabetes. As insulin therapy was not initiated the diabetes rapidly decompensated. It is recommended that further investigations be conducted in patients with hyperglycemia following infections.
authors: Kinderspital Basel.
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Ruch
authors: U
authors: U
authors: Zumsteg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Diabetes oder Hyperglykämie?