Hyperkalemia is when you have too much potassium in your blood. The body needs a delicate potassium balance to help the heart and other muscles work properly. Too much potassium in your blood can lead to dangerous, and even deadly, changes in your heart rhythm. Hyperkalemia vs. hypokalemia Wh...
Hyperkalemiais abnormally high potassium levels in theextracellular(i.e. outside) fluid. This is in contrast tohypokalemia, which is an abnormally low level of potassium. To remember the difference between the prefixes hyper- and hypo-, visualize a hyper child that has had too much sugar. Anot...
Treatment of pseudohyperkalemia may result in hypokalemia; thus, treatment of non–life-threatening hyperkalemia should be deferred pending verification of hyperkalemia. References Diet and Activity A low-potassium diet containing 2 g of potassium is recommended so as to minimize potassium intake in pati...
Many studies have shown that very high serum potassium levels predispose patients to sudden death [50]. More recently, Kashihara et al. reported that in Japanese patients with CKD Stage 3a with serum potassium ≥6.0 mEq/L, the 3-year mortality rate was 22.64% [51]. Hypokalemia (serum pot...
The adverse effects of SPS include electrolyte disturbances, such as hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia, and gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, constipation and diarrhea. However, severely adverse gastrointestinal effects, including ulceration, bleeding, ischemic colitis and perforation have also been rep...