JR Schelling, RL Howard, SD Winter, SL … - Annals of Internal …, 1990 - Am Coll Physicians Add to CiteULike Add to Complore Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook
Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to Twitter What's this? ... Objective: To determine whether
an elevated osmolal gap is specific for toxic alcohol ingestion. Cited by 53 - Related articles - All 3 versions
AH SKLAR, SL LINAS - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians The osmolal gap may be defined as the difference between the calculated and measured serum
osmolalities. The calculated component of this entity may be derived from the following formula
(1): Serum osmolality (mosmol/kg H 2 O) = 1. 86 Na + [glucose/18] + [blood urea ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►clinchem.org [PDF] DF Davidson - Clinical Chemistry, 1992 - Am Assoc Clin Chem In conclusion, our method is useful because fucose and ... References 1. Kornfeld R, Kornfeld
S. Comparative aspects of glycoprotein structure. Annu Rev Biochem 1976;45:217-37. 2. Rows
L, Anderson B, Kal,at EA, Gruezo F, Liao J. Structures of ... UP. Serum fucose levels and ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - All 3 versions
GL Braden, CH Strayhorn, MJ Germain, JG … - Archives of Internal …, 1993 - archinte.highwire.org Measurement of the serum osmolal gap is used frequently to assess a change in the wa¬ ter
content of serum or to identify the pres¬ ence of foreign low-molecular-weight sub¬ stances,
such as ethyl alcohol, ethylene gly- col, methanol, or isopropyl alcohol, which increase ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
TF Eisen, PG Lacouture, A Woolf - The American journal of emergency …, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Freezing point depression osmometry is preferred over vapor pressure with ingestions of volatile
substances. Sixty-six laboratories nationwide (23 teaching hospital, 22 nonteaching
hospital, and 21 commercial facilities) were surveyed to determine the availability and ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - All 2 versions
- ►drsdaubert.org [PDF] RS Hoffman, MJ Smilkstein, MA Rowland, LR … - Clinical …, 1993 - informahealthcare.com A study was designed to define the osmol gap in patients whose serum ethanol concentrations
are known, to reevaluate several accepted equations for calculating osmolarity, and to apply
the results to the theoretical clinical scenario of a toxic alcohol ingestion. The design for ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
H Inaba, H Hirasawa, T Mizuguchi - The Lancet, 1987 - Elsevier The serum osmolality gap (OG), the difference between measured and predicted serum
osmolality, was determined in 161 postoperative patients. A significantly increased OG was found
in patients with failure of one or more organs, but rarely seen in those without organ ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 6 versions
B Steinhart - The Journal of emergency medicine - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov This is a case of a 23-year-old male presenting with altered sensorium, vomiting, and right flank
pain. Despite a normal osmolal gap, he was found to be suffering from ethylene glycol
intoxication. This little-described presentation can result in the clinician failing to consider ... Cited by 26 - Related articles
AM Almaghamsi, CK Yeung - Clinical nephrology, 1997 - cat.inist.fr Severe metabolic acidosis in the setting of alcoholism raises diagnostic and therapeutic
problems[Levinsky 1994]. Alcoholic ketoacidosis and toxic alcohol ingestion can be difficult to
distinguish on initial presentation[Litovitz 1986]. A high osmolal gap associated with ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions