Metabolic acidosis in newborn infants.

Metabolic acidosis in newborn infants.

Pathogenesis of Metabolic Acidosis in Preterm Infants

Objective: To determine how the balance between mineral base, and carbonic and organic acids is altered to cause metabolic acidosis in preterm infants. Study Design: Mineral balance and arterial blood measurements of 3 groups of preterm infants given 5 different Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) regimens were analyzed. Mineral base was measured as the difference between mineral cations and anion...

A Peculiar Cause for Metabolic Acidosis in the Newborn

Metabolic acidosis is often encountered in a sick neonate and intestinal duplication with heterotopic gastric mucosa is a well-established condition. We present a previously unreported relationship between neonatal metabolic acidosis, resulting from transperitoneal absorption of hydrochloric acid, and a ruptured non- communicating ileal duplication cyst with gastric mucosal heterotopia. The neo...

Cholestasis in late metabolic acidosis of prematurely born infants.

Serum concentrations of bile acids and tyrosine were determined in 14 premature infants with late metabolic acidosis and in 13 comparable controls without acidosis (protein intake 2 g/kg X d). At the same time the bile acids and the catalytic activity concentrations of lipase and trypsin were estimated in the duodenal juice. The daily faecal excretion and the percentage of fat eliminated were m...

Metabolic acidosis in burns.

All our tests with the Navictda sp. were negative. It was apparent, therefore, that this was not the cause of trouble but that Fragilaria striatula was suspect. This is in agreement with the report of Fraser and Lyell (1963) that an eczematous eruption in an Aberdeen fisherman was caused by Fragilaria struia. That this diatom, alone out of so many present in the sea, should have a harmful effec...