Cortesi, Cinzia and Lava, Sebastiano and Bettinelli, Alberto and Tammaro, Fabiana and Giannini, Olivier and Caiata Zufferey, Maria and Bianchetti, Mario G. (2010) Cardiac arrhythmias and rhabdomyolysis in Bartter-Gitelman patients. Pediatric Nephrology, 25 (10). pp. 2005-2008. ISSN 1432-198X
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Recent data demonstrate that patients affected with hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies are prone to acute cardiac arrhythmias and rhabdomyolysis. The tendency to these potentially fatal complications is especially high if chronic hypokalemia is severe, in patients with diarrhea, vomiting or a prolonged QT interval on standard electrocardiography, in patients on drug management with compounds prolonging the electrocardiographic QT interval (including antiarrhythmic agents, some antihistamines, macrolides, antifungals, psychotropics, beta2-adrenergic agonists or cisapride), following acute alcohol abuse and during exercise. Cardiac arrhythmias and rhabdomyolysis occur with sufficient frequency in hypokalemic salt-losing tubulopathies to merit wider awareness of their presence and the preparation of specific prevention and management recommendations.
Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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Subjects: | Medicine and Dentistry Social studies |
Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze pratiche e politiche sanitarie |
Depositing User: | Maria Caiata Zufferey |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2016 06:17 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 10:00 |
URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/7452 |
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