Pietro Lazzeroni, Luca Bernardi, Francesco Pecora, Matteo Motta, Laura Bianchi, Maria Beatrice Ruozi, Alessandra Giacometti, Silvia Venezia, Icilio Dodi, Brunella Iovane
Reorganization of healthcare resources due to COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unintentional neglect of essential care, especially for paediatric emergencies. This phenomenon has been observed also for type 1 diabetes patients at onset, and surveys from different countries have shown an increased number of diabetic ketoacidosis during lock-down period. We report the case of two patients admitted late at our emergency care service for type-1 diabetes at onset with ketoacidosis, for reasons related to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak...
November 17, 2020: Acta Bio-medica: Atenei Parmensis