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Successful treatment of metformin-associated lactic acidosis without hemodialysis.

Key takeaways

This report describes one girl who had a rare, serious reaction to a diabetes drug called metformin. She was treated with standard care and did not need dialysis. This is a single case report, so it does not provide general evidence for all patients.

Who did this work

Sophark P · Jaruratanasirikul S · Dissaneewate P · Vachvanichsanong P

Source

Article · PubMed, Nutritional supplements and CKD · 2026 Oct 7
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42834623/