Optimizing the postmortem diagnosis of alcoholic ketoacidosis Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
Diagnosis Drug rehabilitation of ketoacidosis is made by elevated anion gap with presence of ketone bodies. A ketoacidosis with normal glucose is diagnostic of fasting/alcoholic ketoacidosis with the difference in diagnosis made by presenting history. Alcoholic ketoacidosis occurs when NAD is depleted by ethanol metabolism, resulting in inhibition of the aerobic metabolism in the Krebs …