Dear RG researchers, may I know how many of you found low lactate level associate with high sepsis mortality? I do encounter many of these cases in Malaysia. Theoretical, the low lactate is due to low pyruvate reserved in patients who had poor oral intake lead to starving.
Article Risk factors for mortality in patients with low lactate leve...
This study may help you.
Whilst the phenomenon is recognised I rarely see patients with low lactate who have adverse outcomes.
Its a sign tissue or cell hypoxia, more the level more the ischemic injury
Absence of infection is associated with a higher mortality in patients with low lactate levels.
Doi : 10.1186/s13049-017-0415-8
Absence of infection was associated with a higher mortality in case of low lactate.
Also normotensive patients were found to have a slightly higher mortality in case of slightly high lactate
Lactate levels are good predictors of mortality in patients with sepsis
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