Surreptitious hyperkalaemia and its complications

Surreptitious hyperkalaemia is not a common problem, particularly in patients not yet dialysis dependent. We encountered a patient who baffled her physicians and their consultants, who nonetheless proposed life-saving treatments and novel explanations. However, according to the maxim that common thi...

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Autores principales: Morgenstern, Tilo, Kurp, Gregor, Mahmud, Hasan, Föller, Michael, Lang, Florian, Luft, Friedrich C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25949278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfn186
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author Morgenstern, Tilo
Kurp, Gregor
Mahmud, Hasan
Föller, Michael
Lang, Florian
Luft, Friedrich C.
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description Surreptitious hyperkalaemia is not a common problem, particularly in patients not yet dialysis dependent. We encountered a patient who baffled her physicians and their consultants, who nonetheless proposed life-saving treatments and novel explanations. However, according to the maxim that common things are common and rare things are rare, we solved the problem by focusing on the accompanying anion.
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spelling pubmed-44214822015-05-06 Surreptitious hyperkalaemia and its complications Morgenstern, Tilo Kurp, Gregor Mahmud, Hasan Föller, Michael Lang, Florian Luft, Friedrich C. NDT Plus Case Report Surreptitious hyperkalaemia is not a common problem, particularly in patients not yet dialysis dependent. We encountered a patient who baffled her physicians and their consultants, who nonetheless proposed life-saving treatments and novel explanations. However, according to the maxim that common things are common and rare things are rare, we solved the problem by focusing on the accompanying anion. Oxford University Press 2009-02 2008-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4421482/ /pubmed/25949278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfn186 Text en © The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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