An Unexpected Cause of Severe Hypokalemia

We describe an unusual case of severe hypokalemia with electrocardiographic changes, due to licorice consumption, in a 15-year-old female student with no previous medical history. Prompt replacement of potassium and cessation of licorice ingestion resulted in a favourable outcome. We also discuss th...

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Autores principales: Caravaca-Fontan, Fernando, Martinez-Saez, Olga, Delgado-Yague, Maria, Yerovi, Estefania, Liaño, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26550501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/957583
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author Caravaca-Fontan, Fernando
Martinez-Saez, Olga
Delgado-Yague, Maria
Yerovi, Estefania
Liaño, Fernando
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description We describe an unusual case of severe hypokalemia with electrocardiographic changes, due to licorice consumption, in a 15-year-old female student with no previous medical history. Prompt replacement of potassium and cessation of licorice ingestion resulted in a favourable outcome. We also discuss the pathophysiology and diagnosis, emphasizing the importance of a detailed anamnesis to rule out an often forgotten cause of hypokalemia as the licorice poisoning.
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spelling pubmed-46249132015-11-08 An Unexpected Cause of Severe Hypokalemia Caravaca-Fontan, Fernando Martinez-Saez, Olga Delgado-Yague, Maria Yerovi, Estefania Liaño, Fernando Case Rep Nephrol Case Report We describe an unusual case of severe hypokalemia with electrocardiographic changes, due to licorice consumption, in a 15-year-old female student with no previous medical history. Prompt replacement of potassium and cessation of licorice ingestion resulted in a favourable outcome. We also discuss the pathophysiology and diagnosis, emphasizing the importance of a detailed anamnesis to rule out an often forgotten cause of hypokalemia as the licorice poisoning. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4624913/ /pubmed/26550501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/957583 Text en Copyright © 2015 Fernando Caravaca-Fontan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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