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Case Reports
. 2008 Apr;1(2):94-96.
doi: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfm032. Epub 2008 Jan 4.

Pseudo-anion gap acidosis

Sankar D Navaneethan  1 , Robert Mooney  2 , James Sloand  1
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Case Reports

Pseudo-anion gap acidosis

Sankar D Navaneethan et al. NDT Plus. 2008 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: acidosis; anion gap.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Admixtures of the affected patient serum with other bicarbonate sources yield predicted bicarbonate levels. Aliquots of affected serum (7.7 mEq/L) were mixed with either a bicarbonate solution (31.9 mEq/L) or a normal serum (25.6 mEq/L) at the indicated percentages. Measured bicarbonate levels in the admixtures were plotted together with the predicted bicarbonate values in the admixtures calculated from the sum of the individual component contributions.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Bland–Altman plot of the difference between calculated bicarbonate and enzymatic measurement of serum bicarbonate. Data represent a series of 88 paired patient data sets of calculated bicarbonate, derived from the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation applied to arterial blood gas parameters and a matched serum bicarbonate measurement. Units are mEq/L. Solid line represents the mean difference or bias of 1.7 mEq/L. Several data points are superimposed.
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