The Role of Using Red-Topped - Non-Additive-Containing - Collecting Tube in Diagnosing Pseudohyperkalemia in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Pseudohyperkalemia in the context of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is becoming a common clinical presentation in our daily practice, yet the recognition and the overall approach to this condition remains a challenge as clinicians ponder on whether it’s a true rise of serum potassium or not, wei...

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Autores principales: Abdulrahim, Ahmed, Ghandour, Mohamedanwar, Mohamed, Abu-Bekr, Samavati, Lobelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8063070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33903836
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14074
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Sumario:Pseudohyperkalemia in the context of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is becoming a common clinical presentation in our daily practice, yet the recognition and the overall approach to this condition remains a challenge as clinicians ponder on whether it’s a true rise of serum potassium or not, weighing the risk-benefit ratio of giving the full anti-hyperkalemia measures, dreading the potential iatrogenic hypokalemia if it proves to be a pseudohyperkalemia instead.

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