Cardiac Manifestations in a Case of Severe Hyperkalemia

Severe hyperkalemia is a life-threatening electrolyte imbalance that may lead to fatal arrhythmias. ECG (electrocardiogram) and serum potassium levels are vital for diagnosing and stratifying the risk. Management involves shifting potassium intracellularly and eliminating it through renal and gastro...

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Autores principales: Saad, Syed M, Yasin, Samiya, Jain, Neeraj, LeLorier, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824794
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13641
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author Saad, Syed M
Yasin, Samiya
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description Severe hyperkalemia is a life-threatening electrolyte imbalance that may lead to fatal arrhythmias. ECG (electrocardiogram) and serum potassium levels are vital for diagnosing and stratifying the risk. Management involves shifting potassium intracellularly and eliminating it through renal and gastrointestinal routes. Failure to diagnose early and manage severe hyperkalemia requires emergent hemodialysis.
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spelling pubmed-80120672021-04-05 Cardiac Manifestations in a Case of Severe Hyperkalemia Saad, Syed M Yasin, Samiya Jain, Neeraj LeLorier, Paul Cureus Cardiology Severe hyperkalemia is a life-threatening electrolyte imbalance that may lead to fatal arrhythmias. ECG (electrocardiogram) and serum potassium levels are vital for diagnosing and stratifying the risk. Management involves shifting potassium intracellularly and eliminating it through renal and gastrointestinal routes. Failure to diagnose early and manage severe hyperkalemia requires emergent hemodialysis. Cureus 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8012067/ /pubmed/33824794 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13641 Text en Copyright © 2021, Saad et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_full Cardiac Manifestations in a Case of Severe Hyperkalemia
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title_short Cardiac Manifestations in a Case of Severe Hyperkalemia
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topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012067/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13641
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