Lactic acidosis occurs when a person’s body either produces too much lactate, or underuses lactate. Lactic acidosis can be caused by conditions such as heart disease, HIV, cancer, and more. Lactic ...

Metformin is one of most commonly prescribed medications for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metformin exerts its activity by increasing peripheral glucose uptake and utilization, and ...

In this paper, [4] the authors studied a community-based cohort of patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and a postdiagnosis serum creatinine measurement who were receiving care in the ...

Background A 51-year-old man with HIV infection on highly active antiretroviral therapy presented with abdominal pain and exertional dyspnea. Physical examination revealed increased respiration and ...

What Is a Lactic Acid Blood Test? It’s a test that measures the amount of lactic acid (also called “lactate”) in your blood. This acid is made in muscle cells and red blood cells. It forms when your ...

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) presenting with hyperlactatemia or lactic acidosis (LA) represents a rare, often fatal paraneoplastic ...

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INTRODUCTION Lactic acidosis is a relatively rare complication diagnosed in patients with diabetes. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify causes of lactic acidosis in patients with diabetes ...

A 49-year-old man presented to the emergency department with an eight-hour history of unsteady gait, impaired concentration, difficulty speaking and blurry vision, which had developed over the ...

Objectives: The respiratory compensation point (RCP) marks the onset of hyperventilation (“respiratory compensation”) during incremental exercise. Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely ...