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Abstract
A 60-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus, who was feeling well except for mild fatigue, was found to have abnormal levels of hemoglobin, creatinine, and serum calcium on laboratory testing before planned cataract surgery.
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1 From the Department of Medicine, Legacy Emanuel and Legacy Good Samaritan Hospitals, Portland, OR (K.L., D.J.G.); the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, the Patient Safety Enhancement Program, University of Michigan Health System, and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School — all in Ann Arbor (S.S.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY (M.A.J.); and the Medical Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, and the Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine — both in San Francisco (G.D.).