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Positive benefits on morbidity and mortality were found without serious hyperkalaemia.
In older patients there is a greater risk of hyperkalaemia due to reduced renal function.
Potassium-sparing diuretics and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole produce hyperkalaemia by interfering with potassium secretion in the distal part of the nephron.
Correction of acid-base disturbances will also alleviate hyperkalaemia.
This has clinical consequences: for example, the toxic effects of hyperkalaemia can be mitigated by promoting movement of small amounts of potassium into cells.
Some of the drugs causing hyperkalaemia, and the mechanisms, have already been discussed.
Uncontrolled hyperkalaemia, acidosis and fluid overload are usually the reasons for instituting dialysis.
Patients taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor such as ramipril and the aldosterone antagonist spironolactone can develop life-threatening hyperkalaemia.
In chronic renal failure, the most common cause of hyperkalaemia is potassiumretaining drugs.
The management of hyperkalaemia in the older patient with renal failure is no different from that of younger individuals.
Normal cells may be exposed to hyperkalaemia; abnormal cells may be perfused by normal environment.
Respiratory distress, impaired consciousness, pulmonary edema, infiltration on chest x-ray, shock, arrythmias, renal failure requiring haemodialysis, metabolic acidosis, and hyperkalaemia may occur in severe cases.
He then falsifies and plants blood work results indicating that his wife is in a state of hyperkalaemia, so she is transferred to the hospital, since he intended that.
