Hyperaldosteronism in a Patient With Gastrointestinal Potassium Wasting
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Falsely high plasma potassium values in patients with hyperaldosteronism.
The common practice of encouraging forearm exercise as an aid to venepuncture is a potent source of erroneously high plasma potassium levels. This may be sufficient to obscure a suspicion of hyperaldosteronism, with possible serious repercussions in hypertensive patients, in whom the diagnosis of hyperaldosteronism has important therapeutic implications. Plasma is preferable to serum for potass...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Endocrine Society
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2472-1972
DOI: 10.1210/jendso/bvab048.270