The road to a correct diagnosis of disease relies heavily on the ability to consider all possibilities and to progress methodically in ruling them out to arrive at the correct diagnosis. Nothing is more distressing to a patient than a doctor who vigorously treats him or her on the premise of a wrong diagnosis. It is imperative that a doctor learns the art of correct clinical diagnosis; everything else depends on this.
Hyperglycemia is a derangement of the metabolic processes that regulate glucose in the body. It may be present in several disease conditions some of which are listed below.
Surgical Procedure – Complication
Cirrhosis/post small-bowel bypass
Infections Amebiasis/Endameba histiolytica Arthritis, pyogenic/septic Bacterial endocarditis, subacute Hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C virus (non-A, non-B)
Immune deficiency, acquired (AIDS/HIV) Infectious mononucleosis
Lyme disease Meningitis, aseptic/viral Meningitis/bacterial
Pneumonia, pneumococcal Syphilis
Trichinosis Tuberculosis Typhoid fever
Actinomycosis, thoracic Actinomycosis/Actinomycosis bovis Amebic abscess (ameboma)/colon Amebic abscess, liver
Arthritis, tuberculous Aspergillosis Bacteroides infection Bartonellosis Blastomycosis Brucellosis
Cirrhosis, syphilitic (Hepar lobatum) Coccidioidomycosis
Hepatic brucellosis
Hepatitis B vasculitis syndrome Hepatitis E virus Histoplasmosis Histoplasmosis, hepatic
Hookworm (Ancylostomiasis) disease Leishmaniasis/kala-azar
Leprosy,
Leprous orchitis Leptospirosis/severe (Weils) type Lyme arthritis Lymphogranuloma venereum Measles (rubeola)
Pelvic actinomycosis Plasmodium falciparum malaria Psoas cold abscess/Tuberculous Relapsing fever (Borrelia) Rickettsial disease
Rubella, congenital
Sleeping sickness/trypanosomiasis Sprue, tropical
Strongyloides stercoralis Toxoplasmosis Trichuriasis
Tuberculosis
Visceral larval migrans Whipples disease Yersinia arthritis
Actinomycosis, abdominal Arthritis, fungal
Malaria
Infectious abscesses Sepsis
Septicemia
Inflammation, acute or chronic Sarcoidosis