SEVERE metabolic acidosis, when it occurs in diabetic patients, is generally the result of excessive hepatic production of acetoacetic and beta-hydroxybutyric acid. Exceptional cases of metabolic ...

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Despite an important loss of potassium, initial serum potassium levels appear normal or increased due to the extracellular migration of potassium in response to acidosis. However, during treatment, ...

The paper by Daughaday, Lipicky and Rasinski, appearing elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, reminds one that the original description of lactic acidosis in 1961 made the condition appear to be ...

Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely determined, but the most common explanation is a failure of the body’s buffering mechanisms which leads to metabolic (lactic) acidosis. It was ...

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Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(15):1430-1434. Kathryn D. Mathews, PharmD, is Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; at the time of writing, she was Cardiology ...