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. 2023 May 26;10(6):945. doi: 10.3390/children10060945

Table 1.

Blood D-lactate levels in mmol/L in different diseases. D-lactate was measured with different laboratory assays.

Disease Frist Author Study Group Blood D-Lactate Levels [mmol/L]
IBD Yang [53] Group A (mesalazine)
Before treatment 7.18 ± 0.77
After treatment 5.48 ± 0.63
Group B (mesalazine + rifaximin)
Before treatment 7.22 ± 0.87
After treatment 3.22 ± 0.38
Song [54] UC 0.07 ± 0.03
CD 0.07 ± 0.03
Controls 0.01 ± 0.01
Cai [55] Active CD 0.18 ± 0.05
Remission 0.12 ± 0.04
Controls 0.11 ± 0.04
Appendicitis Demircan [57] * Perforated appendicitis 0.44 ± 0.08
Non-perforated appendicitis 0.16 ± 0.04
Controls 0.05 ± 0.02
Caglayan [58] Edematous appendicitis 0.72 ± 0.54
Flegmaneous appendicitis 0.72 ± 0.56
Perforated appendicitis 0.43 ± 0.14
Controls 0.01 ± 0.01
Filiz [59] Acute appendicitis 0.53 ± 0.02
Perforated acute appendicitis 0.61 ± 0.02
Nonspecific abdominal pain 0.20 ± 0.01
Acute abdomen other than appendicitis 0.19 ± 0.01
Controls 0.18 ± 0.01
Duzgun [60] Edematous appendicitis 1.12 ± 0.5
Flegmaneous appendicitis 1.77 ± 1.3
Gangrenous appendicitis 1.65 ± 1.0
No appendicitis 0.40 ± 0.30
Kwan [61] * Definitive appendicitis 0.3 ± 0.4
No definitive appendicitis 0.3 ± 0.5
Intestinal ischemia Murray [62] Mesenteric ischemia 0.36 ± 0.04
Bowel obstruction 0.12 ± 0.02
Acute abdomen 0.11 ± 0.04
Controls 0.05 ± 0.01
Poeze [63] Septic survivors
Admission 0.09 ± 0.11
24 h 0.11 ± 0.11
Septic nonsurvivors
Admission 0.11 ± 0.14
24 h 0.24 ± 0.12
Jorgensen [64] Septic survivors, mean [range] 0.3 [0–0.6]
Septic nonsurvivors, mean [range] 0.4 [0.1–0.7]
Controls, mean [range] 0.03 [0–0.13]
Liver disease Ruan [71] Liver cirrhosis 0.15 ± 0.1
Controls 0.01 ± 0.01
Zhang [73] Without MAFLD, median (IQR) 0.15 (0.09–0.19)
With MAFLD, median (IQR) 0.26 (0.2–0.39)
Cystic fibrosis Wiecek [76] * Cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency, median (IQR) 12 × 10−3 (8–13 × 10−3)
Cystic fibrosis without pancreatic
insufficiency, median (IQR)
8 × 10−3 (7–10 × 10−3)
Diabetes mellitus Talasniemi [3] DM 40 × 10−3 ± 24 × 10−3
Hasegawa [77] DM 28 × 10−3 ± 4 × 10−3
Controls 13 × 10−3 ± 1 × 10−3
McLellan [78] T1DM and T2DM 20 × 10−3 ± 1 × 10−3
Controls 11 × 10−3 ± 1 × 10−3
Beisswenger [79] T2DM without metformin 10 × 10−3 ± 4 × 10−3
T2DM with metformin ≤1 g/day 14 × 10−3 ± 8 × 10−3
T2DM with metformin >1 g/day 13 × 10−3 ± 5 × 10−3
Controls 8 × 10−3 ± 3 × 10−3
McLellan [83] T1DM, median (range) 18 × 10−3 (6–57 × 10−3)
T2DM, median (range) 20 × 10−3 (3–48 × 10−3)
Controls, median (range) 10 ± 4 × 10−3 (2–20 × 10−3)
Forni [80] Diabetic ketoacidosis 0.16 ± 0.07
Controls 0.04 ± 0.02
Lu [81] Diabetic ketoacidosis 3.82 ± 2.5
DM 0.47 ± 0.55
Controls 0.25 ± 0.35

* Study with pediatric patients. Values are mean ± SD unless otherwise indicated. UC = ulcerative colitis, CD = Crohn’s disease, MAFLD = metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease, IQR = interquartile range, T1DM = type 1 diabetes mellitus, T2DM = type 2 diabetes mellitus.