Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hypertriglyceridemia, and acute pancreatitis are a rare and potentially fatal triad. This article presents a fatal case of acute pancreatitis, DKA, and hypertriglyceridemia in a patient with undiagnosed diabetes mellitus struggling with alcoholism. The patient was unresponsive to standard pancreatitis and DKA treatment protocol and progressed to develop multi-organ failure. Despite best efforts, the patient expired on day five of admission.
Keywords: alcohol use disorder; dka; hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis; triad; undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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