Pseudohyperkalemia occurring in a patient with chronic renal failure and polycythemia vera without severe leukocytosis or thrombocytosis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 451-454

  Fukasawa, H ^a   Furuya, R ^b   Kato, A ^a   Yonemura, K ^a   Fujigaki, Y ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a   Hishida, A ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Iwata City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Polycythemia vera; Pseudohyperkalemia

Indexed keywords

BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; BICARBONATE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; FLUDROCORTISONE ACETATE; POTASSIUM; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOSIS; UREMIA;

EID: 0036900738     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp58451     Document Type: Article

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