Clinical profile of patients with symptomatic glycyrrhizin-induced hypokalemia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1579-1581

  Kurisu, Satoshi ^a   Inoue, Ichiro ^a   Kawagoe, Takuji ^a   Ishihara, Masaharu ^a   Shimatani, Yuji ^a   Nakama, Yasuharu ^a   Maruhashi, Tatsuya ^a   Kagawa, Eisuke ^a   Dai, Kazuoki ^a   Aokage, Toshiyuki ^a   Matsushita, Junichi ^a   Ikenaga, Hiroki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOSEMIDE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; POTASSIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; ECG ABNORMALITY; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEART PALPITATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; NAUSEA; PARALYSIS; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNCOPE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALDOSTERONE; FEMALE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; JAPAN; MALE; PHARMACEUTIC AIDS; PHYTOTHERAPY; POTASSIUM; RENIN;

EID: 51249095390     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01781.x     Document Type: Letter

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