lactic acidosis in a sentence
Examples
- In rare chronic forms of lactic acidosis caused by mitochondrial disease, a specific diet or dichloroacetate may be used.
- More commonly, infants with GSD I tolerate without obvious symptoms a chronic, mild hypoglycemia, and compensated lactic acidosis between feedings.
- Lactic acidosis is initially treated with sodium bicarbonate, although high doses are not recommended, as this may increase intracellular acidosis.
- Hypoglycaemia occurs due to ethanol's inhibition of gluconeogenesis, especially in children, and may cause lactic acidosis, ketoacidosis, and acute renal failure.
- However, metformin is safer than phenformin, and the risk of developing lactic acidosis is not increased except for known high-risk groups.
- With continued contractions under anaerobic conditions, the cells undergo lactic acidosis, or the production of lactic acid as a metabolic byproduct.
- Signs of lactic acidosis include fast or irregular heartbeat, unusual muscle pain, fatigue, difficulty breathing and stomach pain with nausea and vomiting.
- Lactic acidosis sometimes occurs without hypoxia, for example, in rare inborn errors of metabolism where mitochondria do not function at full capacity.
- Other names for this syndrome include Finnish lethal neonatal metabolic syndrome ( FLNMS ); lactic acidosis, Finnish, with hepatic hemosiderosis; and Fellman syndrome.
- Lactic acidosis ( a toxic buildup of lactic acid ) can be fatal in patients with kidney or liver disease or alcohol problems.