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SM Journal of Pediatrics

Association of Post-Surgical Lactate Levels with Morbidity and Mortality in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Circulation Pump

[ ISSN : 3067-9990 ]

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Received: 16-Oct-2017

Accepted: 16-Nov-2017

Published: 20-Nov-2017

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María del Pilar Cejudo-García de Alba¹, Jaime Valle Leal¹*, Jesús Gabriel Sánchez Beltrán², Amado Jesús Francisco Vázquez-Amparano¹, and Jesús Manuel Armenta Velderrain¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Regional General Hospital, Mexico
²Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Regional General Hospital, Mexico

Corresponding Author:

Jaime Valle Leal, Department of Pediatrics, Regional General Hospital, Mexico, Tel: 52- 6441270367;

Keywords

Lactate; Mortality

Abstract

Lactate is a final product of anaerobic metabolism its accumulation can produce cellular and organic dysfunction of all systems leading to lactic acidosis [1]. Access to its measurement in hospitals has allowed it to be used as a marker of tissue hypoperfusion in multiple pathologies. This marker has been studied as a prognostic factor in patients with sepsis, septic shock, but has not been studied in patients undergoing surgical correction of cardiac malformations [2].

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Cejudo-García de Alba MP, Valle-Leal J, Sánchez-Beltran JG, Vázquez-Amparano AJF and Armenta-Velderrain JM. Association of Post-Surgical Lactate Levels with Morbidity and Mortality in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Circulation Pump. SM J Pediatr. 2017; 2(2): 1014.