Klinische Wochenschrift
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Klinische Wochenschrift · Nov 1981
Case Reports[Lactate acidosis from vitamin B1 deficiency (author's transl)].
This is report of a patient receiving preoperatively parenteral nutrition free of vitamin B1. Intraoperatively a severe lactate acidosis developed. This specific metabolic disorder was normalized only by adequate vitamin B1 substitution. Therefore one has to consider vitamin B1 deficiency as another cause of metabolic acidosis.