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Potentially Life-threatening Arrhythmia Triggered by an Excessive Consumption of Dried Sweet Potato “Hoshi-Imo”

We herein report two cases of potentially life-threatening arrhythmia due to hyperkalemia triggered by the excessive consumption of “Hoshi-Imo” (dried sweet potato). Both patients with chronic renal disease on renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors presented at the emergency room with non-s...

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Autores principales: Yanagihara, Chiaki, Kumagi, Teru, Tasaka, Tatsuro, Watanabe, Yuta, Kono, Tamami, Ohshima, Kiyotaka, Ogimoto, Akiyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744114
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8479-21