How severe acidosis can a human survive? Successful hemofiltration use

Dialysis and Transplantation

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 608-610

  Radej, Jaroslav ^a   Matejovic, Martin ^a   Krouzecky, Ales ^a   Sykora, Roman ^a   Chvojka, Jiri ^a   Novak, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; METFORMIN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 54549092186     PISSN: 00902934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dat.20163     Document Type: Article

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