Pica presenting as metabolic alkalosis and seizure in a dialysis patient [1]

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-73

  Rho, M ^a   Renda, J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WATERBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMLODIPINE; ANTACID AGENT; CALCIUM ACETATE; CARVEDILOL; CITRIC ACID; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRIC HYDROXIDE SUCROSE; IRON; PHENYTOIN; QUINAPRIL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON THERAPY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PICA; SEIZURE;

ADULT; ALKALOSIS; ASPIRIN; CITRATES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PICA; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEIZURES; SODIUM BICARBONATE;

EID: 33745923162     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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