Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence, and severity of hypokalemia, factors associated with hypokalemia among patients hospitalized COVID-19.
 Methods: Random sampling technique employed in this study. Socio-demographic data such as age, gender, weight (kg), height (meters) BMI (kg/m2) well presenting symptoms (pulmonary extra-pulmonary), duration admission, need f...

Introduction: Recreational use of methamphetamine is increasing worldwide, but epidemiology studies from Asia are lacking. We aimed to characterise the trends, drug pattern, clinical presentations and health services utilisation acute toxicity presenting emergency departments current practice department psychosocial interventions in Hong Kong. Methods: This was a secondary analysis retrospectiv...

Toluene inhalation can result in electrolyte and acid-base derangements and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of young patients with unexplained hypokalaemia and normal anion gap metabolic acidosis. This case serves to illustrate the abnormalities and heighten awareness among emergency physicians who may not have laboratory results on hand when evaluating causes of limb weakness.

A 47-year-old woman presented with extreme hypercalcaemia due to a parathyroid carcinoma. An electrocardiogram which was recorded when the hypercalcaemia was associated with hypokalaemia showed absence of the ST segment, prolonged T wave, a shortened QTac interval and prominent U waves.

A 33-year-old patient with hypokalaemia associated with severe myopathy following liquorice ingestion is described. Potassium depletion was confirmed by total body potassium measurements and myopathy was established by electromyography and enzyme studies. The potential hazard of chronic liquorice consumption even as a sweet is illustrated by this case.

A boy was found on the day of birth to have hypertension and radiological evidence of calcification of the left renal vein. Persistent hypokalaemia and hyper-reninaemia in the presence of a small left kidney and normal right kidney led to the decision to perform a left nephrectomy. The biopsied specimen showed old calcified renal vein thrombosis with accompanying medullary necrosis. Postoperati...

Key words: alkalosis; Bartter's syndrome; Gitelman creatinine clearance 64 ml/min/1.73 m2, uric acid 711 mmol, with normal serum total protein and serum syndrome; hypokalaemia; vasculitis; immunosuppres-sive therapy albumin. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 31 mm in the 1st hour and 67 mm in the 2nd hour.