Postoperative hyperkalemia is an important complication of adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma. Recently, postoperative hyperkalemia has been found to have a relatively high incidence ...

Although serum potassium monitoring is recommended to reduce the risk of hyperkalemia, only a small percentage of patients taking RAAS inhibitors are monitored. Hyperkalemia diagnosis is often missed ...

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G_hyperkalemia_web How much do your patients know about the dangers of high potassium levels in the body? They may know that potassium is good for you, or that you need specific levels of it in the ...

October 8, 2009 (UPDATED October 23, 2009) — Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) are more likely than other antihypertensive drugs to cause hyperkalemia, according to the results of a ...

While many healthcare professionals understand the danger of kidney disease, and how critical the organs are in our everyday lives, few understand one of the serious conditions that often occurs when ...

Hyperkalemia is an abnormally high level of potassium in the blood. The normal level of serum potassium (potassium in the fluid portion of the blood) is 3.5 to 5.0 mmol/l. When serum potassium is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An analysis of transgender teens prescribed spironolactone showed that only 2.2% developed hyperkalemia after ...

Antihypertensive regimens that include a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist carry the highest risk for hyperkalemia. Among the drug combinations that may increase serum potassium in patients with ...

For patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), the addition of dapagliflozin (Farxiga) to a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) halved the incidence of moderate to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 38 patients had hyperkalemia before dialysis, researchers found. A daily intake of greater than 15.33 g ...