Quick Facts: Alcoholic Ketoacidosis

Management is based around exclusion of serious pathology and specific treatment for AKA where it is present. A possible link between AKA and sudden death in chronic alcoholism has been proposed but remains unconfirmed. Triglycerides stored in adipose tissue undergo lipolysis alcoholic ketoacidosis smell and are released into the circulation as free fatty acids bound… Continue reading Quick Facts: Alcoholic Ketoacidosis