OBJECTIVE: To emphasize the continued incidence of phenformin-associated lactic acidosis. CASE REPORT: We report a case of phenformin-associated lactic acidosis in a Chinese man who received phenformin while in China. Diagnosis was made; the patient was treated appropriately and survived. COMMENTS: Phenformin-associated lactic acidosis may still occur in the U.S.
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Lu et al. (1996) studied this question.