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- Title
Surreptitious hyperkalaemia and its complications.
- Authors
Morgenstern, Tilo; Kurp, Gregor; Mahmud, Hasan; Föller, Michael; Lang, Florian; Luft, Friedrich C.
- Abstract
Surreptitious hyperkalaemia is not a common problem, particularly in patients not yet dialysis dependent. We encountered a patient who baffled her physicians and their consultants, who nonetheless proposed life-saving treatments and novel explanations. However, according to the maxim that common things are common and rare things are rare, we solved the problem by focusing on the accompanying anion.
- Subjects
DISEASES; DIALYSIS (Chemistry); MUNCHAUSEN syndrome; CITRATES; POTASSIUM
- Publication
NDT Plus, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1753-0784
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndtplus/sfn186