Summary: A 37-year-old man hospitalized for mental status changes and possible seizure developed hyperchloremic, normal anion-gap, metabolic acidosis. His medical history was significant for AIDS ...

Metabolic acidosis happens when the chemical balance ... what's going on in your body so that you get the right treatment. Anion gap. This test measures the chemical balance in your blood.

Although he had a metabolic acidosis during several of those hospitalizations as well, it was always a non-anion gap metabolic acidosis in the setting of diarrhea, and his bicarbonate levels ...

Metabolic acidosis is characterized by a primary reduction in serum bicarbonate (HCO 3 −) concentration, a secondary decrease in the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO 2) of ∼1 ...

Drugs that impair oxidative phosphorylation, such as antiretroviral agents and propofol, can augment lactic acid production and on rare occasions cause severe lactic acidosis. Patients receiving ...

This is called “high anion gap metabolic acidosis,” and it can be life threatening in some situations. Treatments can address the health issue responsible for an abnormal anion gap reading.

Given his history of alcoholism and a previous suicide attempt, this “raised concerns for acute ... The researchers suspect the patient’s anion gap metabolic acidosis was influenced by ...

A review of the literature on causes of anion-gap acidosis raised the possibility of D-lactatemia ... 6 When common causes of mixed, normal or large anion gap metabolic acidosis have been ruled out, a ...

[6,7,8,9,10,11] Published reports that evaluated topiramate-associated hyperchloremic, normal anion-gap, metabolic acidosis were identified via a MEDLINE search (1966-May 2007) and included six ...

Metabolic acidosis happens when your blood becomes too acidic. This can result from other health conditions, such as diabetes that isn’t effectively controlled and kidney disease, among others.