At just 25 years old, Amy Hsieh began experiencing a series of health-related symptoms that ultimately changed her life.

A recent study by University Medicine Halle shows how sepsis can lead to dysfunction of vascular smooth muscle cells. The ...

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the observation that prognosis in respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is worse the longer that acidosis persists, as well as 2. the recently proposed hypothesis that the pathogenesis of RDS may be ...

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 the ...

Department of Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Activation of the acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) by tissue acidosis, a common feature of brain ischemia, contributes to ...

Department of Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Activation of the acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) by tissue acidosis, a common feature of brain ischemia, contributes to ...

Congenital lactic acidosis refers to a group of inborn errors of metabolism characterized in the neonatal period by metabolic acidosis associated with an overwhelming accumulation of lactate.

Neither of these two sets of contrasting results is necessarily applicable to the group of patients with clinical metabolic acidosis (such as those with diarrhea or with uncontrolled diabetes ...

Objective: This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate (SB) administration on mortality in septic patients with acute moderate lactic acidosis (MLA). Methods: The large ICU ...

Robert Lowes is a former journalist for Medscape. He has previously been an editor at Medical Economics magazine and a contributor to numerous healthcare publications. His articles have won major ...