Case report: Severe hyperkalemia in a geriatric patient receiving standard doses of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 84-85

  Perlmutter, Esther P ^a   Sweeney, Doreen ^a   Herskovits, Gerald ^a   Kleiner, Morton ^a  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric; Hyperkalemia; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; OSTEOPOROSIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0030019636     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199602000-00006     Document Type: Article

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