DEFINITION OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT LACTIC-ACIDOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH INTERNAL DISEASES
DEFINITION OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT LACTIC-ACIDOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH INTERNAL DISEASES
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DOI:
10.1093/ajcp/80.4.484
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
EGGSTEIN, M
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作者:
LUFT, D;DEICHSEL, G;EGGSTEIN, M
To define clinically relevant lactic acidosis, 12 biochemical variables, 8 clinical symptoms and signs, leading diagnoses and mortality were evaluated prospectively in approximately 2000 unselected patients with internal diseases, consecutively admitted to the hospital. Patients with incomplete data sets were not considered. Of those patients who repeatedly were admitted to the hospital during the time of the study, only the 1st admission was included for statistical analysis. In addition to 11 definitions of lactic acidosis given in the literature, sequential cluster analyses of the biochemical variables were used to estimate the incidence of lactic acidosis in 1467 patients. Depending upon which definition was used, 0.5-3.8% of all patients were classified as suffering from lactic acidosis, with a mortality rate ranging from 30-88%. A limit of .ltoreq. 7.35 for pH and of > 5-6 mM for the concentration of lactate in whole blood will minimize false-negative or false-positive classifications.