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== Management == | == Management == | ||
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== Complications == | |||
Severe acidaemia can cause fatal [[Ventricular arrhythmias|ventricular arrhythmia]] and depression of cardiac contractility, which may cause heart failure. The usually co-present hypoxaemia may also cause similar complications.<noinclude> | |||
[[Category:Pathophysiology]] | |||
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