title: Lactic acidosis occurrence during exercises in the smoke chamber in a 53-year-old firefighter with no significant medical history.
abstract: Lactic acidosis is a form of metabolic acidosis with a high anion gap, reduced rate of arterial blood pH under 7.35 mmol/l, and lactic acid concentration over 7 mmol/l. In the literature we can find some descriptions of the cases of lactic acidosis in patients with severe systemic diseases (cancer, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, sepsis, diabetes with cardiovascular disease and after organ transplantations). We present the case of lactic acidosis in a patient with no chronic disease--a firefighter in whom lactic acidosis has developed during standard exercises in the smoke chamber.
authors.affiliation: Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Clinic of Metabolic Rehabilitation, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, agabrr@poczta.onet.pl.
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bronisz
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spychalska
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szafrańska
mesh_terms: D000140:Acidosis, Lactic / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000009:adverse effects*; D061388:Firefighters; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012906:Smoke / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D012906:Smoke