• Clin. Chim. Acta · Feb 2015

    Case Reports

    D-lactic acidosis mediated neuronal encephalopathy in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient: an under diagnosis.

    • Damodara Rao Mendu, Martin Fleisher, Samuel I McCash, Melissa S Pessin, and Lakshmi V Ramanathan.
    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States of America.
    • Clin. Chim. Acta. 2015 Feb 20; 441: 90-1.

    BackgroundD-lactic acidosis, also referred as D-lactate encephalopathy, has been reported in patients with short bowl syndrome (SBS).Case ReportThe neurologic symptoms include altered mental status, slurred speech, and ataxia. Onset of neurological symptoms is accompanied by metabolic acidosis and high anion gap. We present here a case of D-lactic acidosis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who developed severe neurological symptoms and metabolic acidosis due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infection, and elevated D-lactic acid.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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