Hazards of potassium and multiple sources of sodium in causing osmotic demyelination

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 730-731

  Kingston, M ^a   Bhuta, S ^a  

^a GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; CREATININE; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; UREA;

ADULT; ATAXIA; AUSTRALIA; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIURESIS; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; LETTER; NAUSEA; NYSTAGMUS; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION; PONS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING; WATER INTOXICATION;

FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; WATER INTOXICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862508109     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02805.x     Document Type: Letter

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