Hyperkalemia in chronic stable renal disease

Kahn, T.; Kaji, D.M.; Nicolis, G.; Krakoff, L.R.; Stein, R.M.

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine new York 46(5): 509-511

1979


ISSN/ISBN: 0027-2507
PMID: 395440
Document Number: 143974
Plasma aldosterone, plasma renin activity (PRA) and electrolyte excretion were compared in 12 consecutive patients with persistent hyperkalemia and chronic renal disease and 9 normokalemic azotemic patients. Plasma aldosterone and PRA were normal in 7 hyperkalemic patients, suggesting that hyperkalemia in azotemic subjects often is not consequent to the low renin, low aldosterone syndrome.

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