Metformin-associated lactic acidosis precipitated by acute renal failure

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-57

  Shenoy, Chetan ^a  

^a GUTHRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Lactic acidosis; Metformin; Metformin associated lactic acidosis

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; METFORMIN; ROSIGLITAZONE;

ABDOMEN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; EXAMINATION; FECES CULTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETHARGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECTUM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 31744438051     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200601000-00016     Document Type: Article

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