Year 2023 / Volume 115 / Number 5
Letter
The enigmatic triad, a clinical challenge

276-277

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.9212/2022

María Lourdes Ruiz Rebollo, Concepción García, César Alberto Berrocal de la Fuente, Borja Toribio Calvo,

Abstract
The concomitant occurrence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) and acute pancreatitis (AP) was first described by Nair et al. as “The Enigmatic Triad”, because the causal factor of AP is still not fully established. We recently attended a patient with this triad.
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Publication history

Received: 18/09/2022

Accepted: 25/09/2022

Online First: 07/10/2022

Published: 05/05/2023

Article Online First time: 19 days

Article editing time: 229 days


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