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Focal brain lactate accumulation in metformin-induced encephalopathy without systemic lactic acidosis: A case report suggesting mitochondrial vulnerability in lentiform fork sign
Metformin causes metabolic encephalopathy in some patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease, resulting in impaired consciousness and parkinsonism. This encephalopathy has a very characteristic magnetic resonance imaging feature in lentiform nuclei known as the “lentiform fork sign”. However, th...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8645906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34917782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2021.100383 |