Hyperphosphatemic hypocalcemic coma caused by hypertonic sodium phosphate (fleet) enema intoxication

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 217-219

  Knobel, Boleslaw ^a,b   Petchenko, Paulina ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hyperphosphatemic hypocalcemic coma; Hypertonic fleet enema

Indexed keywords

SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; URINARY EXCRETION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; CONSTIPATION; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; HYPOCALCEMIA; OVERDOSE; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 0029958551     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199610000-00013     Document Type: Article

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