Maintaining a healthy acidic balance is crucial for homeostasis—the acid-base balance ... as follows: Excess acid production ...

In those who do, the possible symptoms include: Kidney disease or kidney failure can cause metabolic acidosis. Doctors refer to this as renal tubular acidosis. The kidneys remove excess acid ...

Neither of these two sets of contrasting results is necessarily applicable to the group of patients with clinical metabolic acidosis (such as those with diarrhea or with uncontrolled diabetes ...

Metabolic acidosis is defined as a low pH (<7.35) due to an excess of acid (H +)oradeficit of base (HCO 3-). This occurs when there is an increased production of fixed or nonvolatile acids with a ...

Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely determined, but the most common explanation is a failure of the body’s buffering mechanisms which leads to metabolic (lactic) acidosis. It was ...