Example sentences for: hypokalemia

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  • Interestingly, Reid and coworkers [ 28 ] showed that serum infused-adrenaline caused not only hypokalemia but also a prolongation in the QTc interval in normal volunteers, which appears to be highly consistent with the present findings in patients with SAH.

  • We could not assess other factors that have shown to be associated with atrial fibrillation, such as hypokalemia or calcified aortic/mitral valves, [ 41 ] although there are many similarities between the risk factors for valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation in chronic dialysis patients.

  • In a previous preliminary study [ 3 ] , we suggested that women may be more prone than men to develop both hypokalemia and prolongation in the corrected QT (QTc) interval on the first day of SAH.

  • Women are more susceptible to hypokalemia, especially that due to diuretics [ 23 24 ] or SAH [ 3 ] . Considering that hypokalemia causes a prolongation in the QTc interval [ 4 7 8 9 25 ] , the sex-specific difference in ventricular repolarization described above might result from the sex-related difference in serum potassium levels.

  • Kleinfeld and coworkers [ 27 ] demonstrated that elderly women were more vulnerable to hypokalemia, and indicated that this was possibly due to age- and sex-associated differences in body mass composition, which might result in a physiologically low total exchangeable body potassium.


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