An autopsy case of licorice-induced hypokalemic rhabdomyolysis associated with acute renal failure: Special reference to profound calcium deposition in skeletal and cardiac muscle

The Japanese Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1308-1314

  Saito, Takako ^a   Tsuboi, Yasushi ^a   Fujisawa, Genro ^a   Sakuma, Nobuko ^a   Honda, Kazufumi ^a   Okada, Koji ^a   Saito, Ken ^b   Ishikawa, San E ^a   Saito, Toshikazu ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute renal failure; calcium deposition; glycyrrhizin; hypokalemia; rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

GABEXATE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PSEUDOHYPOALDOSTERONISM; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

AGED; CALCIUM; CASE REPORT; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EID: 0028587528     PISSN: 03852385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14842/jpnjnephrol1959.36.1308     Document Type: Article

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