Symptoms included decreased consciousness, hypoglycaemia, lactic acidosis, which occurs when the body produces too much lactic acid, and hypokalaemia, or low potassium. They continued ...

Enhanced computerized tomographic (CT) scanning showed a subpleural tumor (79mm×37mm ... HCO3 – of 15.80mmol/L, lactic acid of 2.7mmol/L, anion gap of 27.50mmol/L, and base excess of -11.7mmol/L.

Interstitial pneumonia is the most common and serious secondary lesion of dermatomyositis. In some cases, patients may develop severe acute pneumonia that can quickly progress to respiratory failure, ...