• Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Feb 2020

    Case Reports

    [Severe Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis in a 67-Year-Old Patient].

    • Manuel Rattka, Wolfgang Rottbauer, and Mirjam Keßler.
    • Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2020 Feb 1; 55 (2): 132-135.

    AbstractMetformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA) is a difficult to diagnose and potentially life-threatening disease. We report a rare case of severe MALA treated at our hospital's intensive care unit. Suspected diagnosis of MALA and quick initiation of an adequate therapy containing renal replacement therapy led to successful management of this complicated MALA-case.Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

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