The Clinical Case of Lactate-acidosis with Fatal Outcome in a Patient with 2 Type Diabetes

Abstract

At the moment, lactate-acidosis coma in patients with diabetes mellitus is considered a rare and extremely urgent condition that occurs in patients with concomitant diseases as well as when taking the most widely used sugar reducing drug – metformin. This article describes a case of lactate-acidosis coma with a fatal outcome, which occurred against the background of taking metformin and alcohol abuse, in a woman with type 2 dia-betes mellitus aged 48 years.

Keywords

• type 2 diabetes
• lactate-acidosis
• metformin
• alcohol