Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Rare Clinical Presentation of Primary Aldosteronism

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) may be related to reversible causes in up to 50% of cases, such as electrolyte imbalances. Primary aldosteronism (PA) is characterized by excessive autonomic aldosterone production and can present with hypokalemia. We present an uncommon case of a 36-year-old woman who wa...

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Autores principales: Costa Filho, Francisco F, Costa, Thomaz A, Furlan, Alan, de Sa, Glenda A, Almeida, Madson Q, Conceicao-Souza, Germano E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10462416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37644920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42664
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author Costa Filho, Francisco F
Costa, Thomaz A
Furlan, Alan
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Almeida, Madson Q
Conceicao-Souza, Germano E
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description Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) may be related to reversible causes in up to 50% of cases, such as electrolyte imbalances. Primary aldosteronism (PA) is characterized by excessive autonomic aldosterone production and can present with hypokalemia. We present an uncommon case of a 36-year-old woman who was diagnosed with PA after two episodes of ventricular fibrillation, secondary to severe hypokalemia.
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spelling pubmed-104624162023-08-29 Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Rare Clinical Presentation of Primary Aldosteronism Costa Filho, Francisco F Costa, Thomaz A Furlan, Alan de Sa, Glenda A Almeida, Madson Q Conceicao-Souza, Germano E Cureus Cardiology Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) may be related to reversible causes in up to 50% of cases, such as electrolyte imbalances. Primary aldosteronism (PA) is characterized by excessive autonomic aldosterone production and can present with hypokalemia. We present an uncommon case of a 36-year-old woman who was diagnosed with PA after two episodes of ventricular fibrillation, secondary to severe hypokalemia. Cureus 2023-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10462416/ /pubmed/37644920 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42664 Text en Copyright © 2023, Costa Filho et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Rare Clinical Presentation of Primary Aldosteronism
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