False hyperlactatemia in ethylene glycol poisoning [14]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 626-627

  Fijen, Jan Willem ^a,b   Kemperman, Hans ^a   Ververs, F F Tessa ^a   Meulenbelt, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; DICLOFENAC; ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ADULT; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERLACTATEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; KUSSMAUL RESPIRATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS;

COMA; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33645103487     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0076-y     Document Type: Letter

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