A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report

Pseudohyperkalemia can appear in a variety of settings and should be recognized early. Treatment of pseudohyperkalemia can lead to an inappropriate decrease of actual serum potassium levels which may lead to life threatening conditions. In the case presented, an 81-year-old male presented with massi...

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Autores principales: Kim, Alice, Biteman, Benjamin, Malik, Umer F, Siddique, Shahzad, Martin, Mersadies R, Ali, Syed A, Maboud, Nadeem, Raja, Sabiya, Zachry, Alison, Mahmoud, Ahmed
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-73
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author Kim, Alice
Biteman, Benjamin
Malik, Umer F
Siddique, Shahzad
Martin, Mersadies R
Ali, Syed A
Maboud, Nadeem
Raja, Sabiya
Zachry, Alison
Mahmoud, Ahmed
author_facet Kim, Alice
Biteman, Benjamin
Malik, Umer F
Siddique, Shahzad
Martin, Mersadies R
Ali, Syed A
Maboud, Nadeem
Raja, Sabiya
Zachry, Alison
Mahmoud, Ahmed
author_sort Kim, Alice
collection PubMed
description Pseudohyperkalemia can appear in a variety of settings and should be recognized early. Treatment of pseudohyperkalemia can lead to an inappropriate decrease of actual serum potassium levels which may lead to life threatening conditions. In the case presented, an 81-year-old male presented with massive leucocytosis and an extremely elevated potassium level. This case report emphasizes the importance of recognizing pseudohyperkalemia in a patient with a severely increased potassium and WBC level; such patients may be clinically asymptomatic or may have a normal ECG.
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spelling pubmed-28388562010-03-16 A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report Kim, Alice Biteman, Benjamin Malik, Umer F Siddique, Shahzad Martin, Mersadies R Ali, Syed A Maboud, Nadeem Raja, Sabiya Zachry, Alison Mahmoud, Ahmed Cases J Case Report Pseudohyperkalemia can appear in a variety of settings and should be recognized early. Treatment of pseudohyperkalemia can lead to an inappropriate decrease of actual serum potassium levels which may lead to life threatening conditions. In the case presented, an 81-year-old male presented with massive leucocytosis and an extremely elevated potassium level. This case report emphasizes the importance of recognizing pseudohyperkalemia in a patient with a severely increased potassium and WBC level; such patients may be clinically asymptomatic or may have a normal ECG. BioMed Central 2010-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2838856/ /pubmed/20184765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-73 Text en Copyright ©2010 Kim et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kim, Alice
Biteman, Benjamin
Malik, Umer F
Siddique, Shahzad
Martin, Mersadies R
Ali, Syed A
Maboud, Nadeem
Raja, Sabiya
Zachry, Alison
Mahmoud, Ahmed
A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title_full A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title_fullStr A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title_short A case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a Case Report
title_sort case of pseudohyperkalemia in a patient presenting with leucocytosis and high potassium level: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-73
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