A rare cause of high anion gap metabolic acidosis

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-101

  Milosevic, S ^a   Tran, K ^a   O'Brien, B ^a  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; CREATININE; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PARACETAMOL; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANION GAP; ARTERIAL GAS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS; ULCER; URINE LEVEL; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACETAMINOPHEN; ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACIDOSIS; ADULT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PYROGLUTAMATE HYDROLASE; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; STOMACH ULCER; VOMITING;

EID: 84872518410     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12016     Document Type: Letter

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