Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report

This study reports a case of a 13-year-old male with a 3-year history of severe and intermittent hypokalemia episodes of unknown origin, requiring admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) for long QT syndrome (LQTS), finally diagnosed of redistributive hypokalemia secondary to the abuse of β-adren...

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Autores principales: Aliaga, Carolt Arana, de Arizon, Leonor Fayos, Bermúdez, Rosario Montañés, Castán, Jose A. Ballarín, Santandreu, Anna Vila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31173041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-8239-JBN-2019-0020
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author Aliaga, Carolt Arana
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spelling pubmed-74276552020-08-25 Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report Aliaga, Carolt Arana de Arizon, Leonor Fayos Bermúdez, Rosario Montañés Castán, Jose A. Ballarín Santandreu, Anna Vila J Bras Nefrol Case Report This study reports a case of a 13-year-old male with a 3-year history of severe and intermittent hypokalemia episodes of unknown origin, requiring admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) for long QT syndrome (LQTS), finally diagnosed of redistributive hypokalemia secondary to the abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in the context of a probable factitious disorder. Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia 2019-05-30 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7427655/ /pubmed/31173041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-8239-JBN-2019-0020 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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title Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report
title_full Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report
title_fullStr Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report
title_full_unstemmed Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report
title_short Severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: Case report
title_sort severe hypokalemia secondary to abuse of β-adrenergic agonists in a pediatric patient: case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31173041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2175-8239-JBN-2019-0020
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