South African Medical Journal (Feb 2017)

Metabolic acidosis in a patient with metformin overdose

I Ebrahim,
M Blockman

Affiliations

I Ebrahim: Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
M Blockman: Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i2.10971
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 107, no. 2
pp. 110 – 111

Abstract

We report a rare fatal case of acute metformin overdose in a 19-year-old woman.

Published in South African Medical Journal

ISSN: 0256-9574 (Print); 2078-5135 (Online)
Publisher: South African Medical Association
Country of publisher: South Africa
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://samajournals.co.za/index.php/samj/index

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