The Clinical Case of Lactate-acidosis with Fatal Outcome in a Patient with 2 Type Diabetes
Author(s) -
Olga Yu. Ibragimova,
Д. Ш. Авзалетдинова,
Т. В. Моругова,
Elena R. Vlasova,
Nataliya G. Kharina,
Zukhra G. Girfanova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical review for general practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-5671
pISSN - 2713-2552
DOI - 10.47407/kr2021.2.7.00086
Subject(s) - metformin , coma (optics) , medicine , acidosis , diabetes mellitus , lactic acidosis , type 2 diabetes mellitus , intensive care medicine , endocrinology , physics , optics
At the moment, lactate-acidosis coma in patients with diabetes mellitus is considered a rare and extremely urgent condition that occurs in patients with concomitant diseases as well as when taking the most widely used sugar reducing drug – metformin. This article describes a case of lactate-acidosis coma with a fatal outcome, which occurred against the background of taking metformin and alcohol abuse, in a woman with type 2 dia-betes mellitus aged 48 years.
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