It has been a quiet week in Lakeside Emergency Department. On Monday one of the patient helpers had a fit at the hydrotherapy pool. Luckily she was not in the water. Her lactate was 13 when she was ...

Background: Predicting at birth which infants with perinatal hypoxic–ischaemic injury will progress to significant encephalopathy remains a challenge. Objective: To determine whether lactic acidosis ...

Introduction: Verbal auditory agnosia is rarely caused by mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome. Lactate acidosis, which is the adverse effect of ...

A rare but serious complication of metformin treatment is lactic acidosis, which is characterized by a blood pH of less than 7.35 and a plasma lactate concentration of greater than 5.0 mmol/L. The ...

Lactic Acidosis as a Cause of Nonketotic Acidosis in Diabetic Patients Authors: William H. Daughaday, M.D., Raymond John Lipicky, M.D., and Dorothy C. Rasinski, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations ...

Background and Purpose— Hyperglycemia aggravates brain damage in clinical stroke and in experimental in vivo models of cerebral ischemia. Elevated preischemic glucose levels, lactate production, and ...

Metabolic acidosis is a complication of many different health conditions. Lactic acidosis, ketoacidosis, and chronic kidney disease are three common causes. Lactic acidosis is associated with elevated ...

Lactic acidosis is a health condition characterized by elevated lactate levels in the body. These high lactate levels may result from increased cell production, decreased clearance (mainly within the ...

Biochemical findings were partially compensated lactate acidosis (lactate 7.0 mmol/L, pH 7.14, PaCO 2 14.1 mmHg, BE −24.2 mmol/L) and hyperammonemia (589 µg/dl), with transaminases within the ...