Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report

We present a case of life-threatening hyperkalemia after recreational cocaine ingestion. Acute cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis led to hyperkalemia, cardiac arrhythmias and cardiogenic shock resulting in multi-organ failure.

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Faisal, Slater, Roger, Ashraf, Sara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829947
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7355
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spelling pubmed-27400652009-10-14 Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report Siddiqui, Faisal Slater, Roger Ashraf, Sara Cases J Case report We present a case of life-threatening hyperkalemia after recreational cocaine ingestion. Acute cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis led to hyperkalemia, cardiac arrhythmias and cardiogenic shock resulting in multi-organ failure. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2740065/ /pubmed/19829947 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7355 Text en © 2009 Siddiqui et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title_full Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title_fullStr Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title_short Life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
title_sort life threatening hyperkalemia following cocaine ingestion: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829947
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7355
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