Ingestion of Betadine poses serious immediate and long-term health risks and one must not do so, even as a prank, the doctor ...

Respiratory acidosis (primary hypercapnia) is when blood becomes too acidic because your lungs are unable to remove enough carbon dioxide from your body. This potentially life-threatening condition ...

Postoperatively, he was successfully extubated and weaned off of vasopressors. On day 0 on HDU, he began to develop an unexplained and progressive lactic acidosis with a raised anion gap of 24 mmol/L.

What Is Renal Tubular Acidosis? Renal tubular acidosis is an illness that happens when the kidneys are damaged and can’t remove a waste, called acid, from the blood. Untreated renal (REE-nul) tubular ...

A normal blood pH is considered to be 7.35–7.45. However, even at a normal blood pH metabolic acidosis can occur. In fact, once the blood pH falls below 7.4, there is usually acid retention in the ...

30% (136/453) patients with persisting respiratory acidosis did not receive NIV while 11% (15/131) of acidotic admissions had a pure metabolic acidosis and did. Hospital mortality was 25% (270/1077) ...

She developed an anion gap metabolic acidosis with a significantly elevated lactate level peaking at 7.5 mmol/L. Other causes of lactic acidosis including hypovolaemia, sepsis, ischaemia and diabetic ...

Diagnosis. Lactic acidosis associated with prolonged exposure to linezolid. Management. Discontinuation of linezolid. Lactic acidosis is a common disorder associated with disturbed acid–base ...

Lactic acidosis is a health condition characterized by elevated lactate levels in the body. These high lactate levels may result from increased cell production, decreased clearance (mainly within ...

Conclusions—On the basis of these findings, we conclude that acidosis-induced coronary arteriolar dilation is mediated by the opening of smooth muscle K ATP channels through the activation of ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. The term congenital lactic acidosis (CLA) refers to a group of inborn errors of mitochondrial ...

Objective: To compare the prognostic abilities of lactic acidosis and hyperlactatemia and determine the influence of metabolic acidosis when attempting to predict the outcome of septic patients using ...