Severe hyperkalaemia after cotrimoxazole administration in a patient with hyporeninaemic hypoaldosteronism
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Hyperkalaemia in diabetes mellitus--potential hazards of coexisting hyporeninaemic hypoaldosteronism.
Two patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Type I), developed severe, life-threatening hyperkalaemia, the first following treatment with spironolactone, the second during treatment for staphylococcal septicaemia when glucose-induced hyperkalaemia occurred. Investigations demonstrated co-existing hyporeininaemic hypoaldosteronism. Prompt recognition of this combined hormone-deficienc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/12.6.1254