Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Mahender Vatipelli

Publications

• Case Report
  Case Report on Bell’s Palsy and Diabetic Ketoacidosis due to Uncontrolled Diabetes.
  Author(s): Mahender Vatipelli and Ayesha Begum PathanMahender Vatipelli and Ayesha Begum Pathan
  
  Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a life-threatening condition seen in diabetes in which body cannot use glucose as a fuel instead uses fat and produces ketones (chemicals) and finally results in diabetic ketoacidosis. Bell's palsy is a sudden weakness or paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face due to mal-function of cranial nerve VII (facial nerve), which stimulates the facial muscles. Bell's palsy affects about 23 of 1,00,000 people at some time. The cause of Bell's palsy is unknown, but it may involve swelling of the facial nerve as a reaction to an immune disorder or a viral infection. Swelling causes the nerve to be compressed and its blood supply to be reduced. In this case facial nerve has got damaged due to diabetic ketoacidosis (mononeuropathy). Risk factors are the virus that have been linked to Bell's palsy include the virus that causes: cold sores and.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000847

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