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Eleven patients with diabetic ketoacidosis were given intravenous phosphate in doses (mean 118 mmol; range 83–320 mmol) adequate to maintain normal plasma phosphate, in addition to a standard treatment regime. Prevention of hypophosphataemia stimulated recovery of the initially low red-cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate concentrations (10.6 ±5.8 (SD) μmol/g Hb) after twenty-four hours. In ten control patients (initial concentration 8.1±4.4 μmol/g Hb) treated without phosphate replacement, significantly lower red-cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate concentrations were found between 2 and 6 days after admission (forty-eight hour value for control patients 14.6±1.6 and for phosphate-treated patients 18.9±4.1 μmol/g Hb; p<0.01). However, no effect onin vivo p 50 or on the availability of oxygen from the blood resulted from the higher 2,3-diphosphoglycerate levels. Maintenance of normal plasma phosphate levels by intravenous phosphate is, therefore, not indicated to improve tissue oxygenation in diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Gibby, O.M., Veale, K.E.A., Hayes, T.M. et al. Oxygen availability from the blood and the effect of phosphate replacement on erythrocyte 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and haemoglobin-oxygen affinity in diabetic ketoacidosis. Diabetologia 15, 381–385 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01219647
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