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- G Price.
- Department of Anaesthesia, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK. grantprice@hotmail.com
- Br J Anaesth. 2003 Dec 1; 91 (6): 909-10.
AbstractA patient with acute renal failure associated with lactic acidosis as a result of concurrent treatment with metformin is described. Rofecoxib may have been a precipitating factor. The risk of renal failure with the use of traditional NSAIDs is well known. However, what is less well appreciated is the role that the COX 2 inhibitors may play in the development of renal failure which, when it occurs in a patient on metformin, can lead to a potentially disastrous outcome.
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