Hypokalaemia in alcoholic patients

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-76

  Elisaf, Moses ^a   Liberopoulos, Evangelos ^a   Bairaktari, Eleni ^a   Siamopoulos, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Hypokalaemia; Hypomagnesaemia; Inappropriate kaliuresis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036004075     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230220119282a     Document Type: Article

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