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Acute Kidney Injury and Hyperkalemia With Precarious Electrocardiographic Changes Caused by Concurrent Use of Telmisartan and Diclofenac

A 70-year-old hypertensive man was prescribed telmisartan for control of blood pressure. He concurrently took over-the-counter diclofenac for back pain. Few days later, he presented to the casualty after syncopal episodes. He was found to have acute kidney injury and elevated potassium of 6.6 mmol/L...

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Autores principales: Gaba, Saurabh, Jesrani, Gautam, Gupta, Samiksha, Gupta, Monica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32963900
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9858