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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-7-11
pubmed:abstractText
Alcoholic ketoacidosis is a metabolic disorder that occurs in acute-on-chronic ethanol abusers who become acutely starved because of cessation of all caloric intake (including ethanol) owing to gastric intolerance or to an intercurrent acute illness. The precise pathogenesis, and especially the cause of the increased lipolysis, is not known, but several factors known or believed to promote ketogenesis are present in those patients. These are particularly starvation and recent ethanol ingestion. The metabolic disorder responds rapidly to rehydration and administration of glucose intravenously, which stops the ketogenesis. The prognosis in these patients depends on the presence and severity of any underlying illness and the adequacy and effectiveness of treatment for that illness. Patients rarely if ever die from either the ketoacidosis or the lactic acidosis associated with ethanol abuse, but they may succumb to other precipitating or coexisting illnesses.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0742-4221
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
365-78
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Alcoholism, ketoacidosis, and lactic acidosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York 10461.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review