Use of urea containing dialysate to avoid disequilibrium syndrome, enabling intensive dialysis treatment of a diabetic patient with renal failure and severe metformin induced lactic acidosis [6]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1303-1304

  Doorenbos, Cornelius J ^a   Bosma, Renate J ^a   Lamberts, Paul J N ^a  

^a DEVENTER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; METFORMIN; OXYGEN; POLYSULFONE; UREA;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETTER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RETINOPATHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0034974748     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.6.1303     Document Type: Letter

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1. Evidence that metformin exerts its anti-diabetic effects through inhibition of complex 1 of the mitochondrial respiratory chain
2. Metformin
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5. Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) in the rat: Role of the 'reverse urea effect'