Surreptitious hyperkalaemia and its complications
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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.
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