Abdominal pain in children with intraabdominal purulent diseases and acute complications of type I diabetes mellitus: a non-systematic review

Abstract

Annotation. The prevalence of type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM) among children in Ukraine reached 9105 patients in 2018 and continues to rise. Differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in ketoacidosis and intraabdominal purulent diseases is an important factor contributing to prompt and appropriate management of such patients. We analyzed the prevalence of T1DM in different age groups and specific features of abdominal pain related to its complications and concomitant intraabdominal purulent diseases in childhood in this article. Scientific research for the period from 2008 to 2021 was carried out according to the primary search strategy “type I diabetes mellitus” (T1DM, pediatric, children, prevalence), “ketoacidosis” (ketoacidosis, diabetic ketoacidosis, children), “abdominal pain” (acute abdominal pain, children), “acute appendicitis” (acute appendicitis, pediatric, children) and the combination of AND/OR in the scientometric databases MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus, Web of Science. The leading role in the pathogenesis of pain belongs to electrolyte imbalance (acidosis) arising from the accumulation of intermediate products of fat oxidation. Abdominal pain in intraabdominal purulent diseases includes visceral, somatic parietal, and irradiating elements. The coincidence of onset peaks of intraabdominal purulent diseases, accompanied by acute abdominal pain and T1DM in this population requires the development of a standardized algorithm for the differential diagnosis of these pathologies.