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Hyperglycemic Crisis in an Anuric Peritoneal Dialysis Patient with Profound and Symptomatic Hypertonicity

An anuric peritoneal dialysis patient with diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, and anasarca developed severe hyperglycemia with hypertonicity causing profound neurological manifestations after prolonged and continuous use of hypertonic (4.25%) dextrose dialysate. She expired with hypotensiv...

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Autores principales: Gibb, James, Xu, Zhi, Rohrscheib, Mark, Tzamaloukas, Antonios H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29974021
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2566