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[Metformin-associated lactic acidosis precipitated by acute renal failure].

In type II diabetes treated with metformin, lactic acidosis is a rare but severe complication. Commonly patients with lactic acidosis show signs of shock, tissue hypoxia, acute hepatic or renal failure and the link between metformin therapy and lactic acidosis may be coincidental, associated or causal. Excessive plasma metformin concentrations show that lactic acidosis is due to a toxicological mechanism. The case of a 65-year-old woman with type II diabetes, in whom severe type B2 lactic acidosis secondary to metformin was precipitated by acute renal failure, is presented. The association of diuretics with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and colchicine was responsible for a volume depletion and an acute renal failure. Initial serum creatinine was 643 micromol x l(-1) and arterial blood gas analysis revealed a pH of 7.01. Aggressive volume expansion and correction of the acidosis with intravenous bicarbonate therapy failed. At the intensive care unit, calculated anion gap was 35 mmol x l(-1) (normal range 10-18) and lactate concentration was 12.4 mmol x l(-1), liver profile was normal. Prolonged haemodialysis using bicarbonate dialysate resulted in a favourable outcome. Toxicology confirmed retrospectively the presence of a plasma concentration of metformine of 20 mg x l(-1) (normal <2). One month after this episode she has made a recovery of tubular necrosis, although no longer prescribed metformin. Metformin should be temporally stopped when acute renal failure occurs or is anticipated; patient with acute renal failure and high calculated anion gap should benefit from lactate measurements. Early bicarbonate haemodialysis is an adequate treatment of lactic acidosis caused by accumulation of metformin associated with acute renal failure

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Circulating anions usually associated with the Krebs cycle in patients with metabolic acidosis.

INTRODUCTION: Acute metabolic acidosis of non-renal origin is usually a result of either lactic or ketoacidosis, both of which are associated with a high anion gap. There is increasing recognition, however, of a group of acidotic patients who have a large anion gap that is not explained by either keto- or lactic acidosis nor, in most cases, is inappropriate fluid resuscitation or ingestion of exogenous agents the cause. METHODS: Plasma ultrafiltrate from patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, lactic acidosis, acidosis of unknown cause, normal anion gap metabolic acidosis, or acidosis as a result of base loss were examined enzymatically for the presence of low molecular weight anions including citrate, isocitrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinate, malate and d-lactate. The results obtained from the study groups were compared with those obtained from control plasma from normal volunteers. RESULTS: In five patients with lactic acidosis, a significant increase in isocitrate (0.71 +/- 0.35 mEq l-1), alpha-ketoglutarate (0.55 +/- 0.35 mEq l-1), malate (0.59 +/- 0.27 mEq l-1), and d-lactate (0.40 +/- 0.51 mEq l-1) was observed. In 13 patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, significant increases in isocitrate (0.42 +/- 0.35 mEq l-1), alpha-ketoglutarate (0.41 +/- 0.16 mEq l-1), malate (0.23 +/- 0.18 mEq l-1) and d-lactate (0.16 +/- 0.07 mEq l-1) were seen. Neither citrate nor succinate levels were increased. Similar findings were also observed in a further five patients with high anion gap acidosis of unknown origin with increases in isocitrate (0.95 +/- 0.88 mEq l-1), alpha-ketoglutarate (0.65 +/- 0.20 mEq l-1), succinate (0.34 +/- 0.13 mEq l-1), malate (0.49 +/- 0.19 mEq l-1) and d-lactate (0.18 +/- 0.14 mEq l-1) being observed but not in citrate concentration. In five patients with a normal anion gap acidosis, no increases were observed except a modest rise in d-lactate (0.17 +/- 0.14 mEq l-1). CONCLUSION: The levels of certain low molecular weight anions usually associated with intermediary metabolism were found to be significantly elevated in the plasma ultrafiltrate obtained from patients with metabolic acidosis. Our results suggest that these hitherto unmeasured anions may significantly contribute to the generation of the anion gap in patients with lactic acidosis and acidosis of unknown aetiology and may be underestimated in diabetic ketoacidosis. These anions are not significantly elevated in patients with normal anion gap acidosis.

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Diabetic complications with special anaesthetic risk.

Diabetes mellitus leads to acute and chronic complications. Acute complications include hypoglycaemia, diabetic keto-acidosis, hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar non-ketotic syndrome and lactic acidosis. Chronic complications are neuropathies, nephropathy, retinopathy, peripheral arterial disease, cerebrovascular disease, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, infection, delayed wound healing and stiff joint disease. End-organ pathology is in part responsible for the increased morbidity and mortality seen in diabetic patients in the peri-operative period. A thorough pre-operative search for end-organ pathology is essential to optimise patient management. Relevant diabetic complications and their anaesthetic risk are discussed.

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[Cardiorespiratory fitness in children with type I diabetes mellitus].

The authors compared indicators of cardiorespiratory functions of 13 boys and 14 girls with insulin-dependent diabetes with the same parameters in a group of their healthy siblings and with mean values of the Czechoslovak population. No significant differences were found. Practically identical values of the decline of bases in the blood stream of healthy and sick children after a load suggest the ability of diabetics to compensate acidosis after a load. From the investigation it is apparent that in child diabetics in the prepubertal period the possibility of developing physical fitness is preserved. The general higher blood level in diabetics after a short intensive load declined, while it rose in siblings. Parameters of the internal environment differed greatly between individual subjects.

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[Pancreatic transplantation. Implantation of auto and allografts of the pancreas into the gastric wall of the diabetic rabbit (author's transl)].

The author's studied pancreatic autotransplants and allotransplants in the gastric submucosa of the rabbit after removal of the pancreas. Pancreatctomy causes severe diabetes with hyperkaliemic acidosis which is always fatal with 72 hours. Auto or allotransplantation cures the diabetes within two to three days, and maintains normal glucose balance for about 60 days. Early death after transplantation occurred when the graft was totally ineffective. After transplantation, the blood sugar rose progressively towards the 15th day, then suddenly and definetely at the time of necrosis of the graft towards the 15th or 21st day. The follow up in some transplanted animals exceeded two months. The interest of the procedure resides in the implantation of a large critical mass (25 to 30% of the pancreas ) in a well-vascularised area, drained by the portal system, and permitting the digestive tract elimination of the pancreatic necrosis whether of vascular or immune origin.

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A case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes associated with diabetes mellitus and hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction.

A 45-year-old woman with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) had muscular atrophy, severe cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, and cardiac hypertrophy. She also had diabetes mellitus treated with insulin, and sensorineural hearing loss. Ragged-red fibers were observed on muscle biopsy and an adenine to guanine transition mutation at position 3243 of her mitochondrial DNA was confirmed. Further investigations revealed that she also had hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction. It appears that diabetes mellitus, hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction, and the other abnormalities are all associated with mitochondrial dysfunction in this patient.

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Nephrocalcinosis in Sjögren's syndrome: a late sequela of renal tubular acidosis.

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune exocrinopathy that develops into systemic autoimmune disease in 25% of patients, leading to general complications, one of which is kidney involvement. It presents mainly as interstitial nephritis, disclosed by hyposthenuria, distal renal tubular acidosis (RTA) and diabetes insipidus. We here describe five cases of SS with type-1 RTA (hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis with an anion gap and alkaline urine pH) who developed nephrolithiasis, nephrocalcinosis and renal insufficiency. Hypercalciuria due to acidosis was the main nephrocalcinosis-prone factor in four patients; four subjects displayed diminished renal concentrating capacity, and two had hypokalaemia.

Acidosis, Renal Tubular↗