Metformin-associated lactic acidosis following acute kidney injury. Efficacious treatment with continuous renal replacement therapy

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-250

  Dichtwald, S ^a   Weinbroum, A A ^a   Sorkine, P ^a,b   Ekstein, M P ^a   Dahan, E ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Metformin

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; METFORMIN; NORADRENALIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASOPRESSIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; EXTUBATION; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PH; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; METFORMIN; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855786953     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03474.x     Document Type: Article

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