DOI: 10.36347/sjmc8r.2018.v06i07.010

Pages: 475-476

Hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS) is one of two life threatening acute metabolic complications occurring in diabetic patients. It is more commonly seen in the elderly disabled patients with type 2 diabetes and it’s often due to infection or an underlying disease, its occurrence in young diabetic type 1 is extremely rare. We report the case of a 17 years old patient admitted for disorders of consciousness whose clinical and biological investigations concluded to a hyperosmolar hyperglycemic coma.