Does hypokalaemia precede delirium tremens?
| Autor: | G. Skude, J. Wadstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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Delirium tremens business.industry Chronic alcoholic Hypokalemia General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Prognosis Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium Psychoses Alcoholic Substance Withdrawal Syndrome Alcoholism Anesthesia mental disorders Potassium Medicine Serum electrolytes Humans medicine.symptom business Aged |
| Zdroj: | Lancet (London, England). 2(8089) |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| Popis: | Serum-potassium was determined daily in 37 chronic alcoholics when alcohol was withdrawn on admission to hospital. Serum-potassium was normal in all patients at admission but in 26 patients in whom delirium tremens developed a continuing decrease in serum-potassium led to hypokalaemia, (mean 2·9 mmol/l) when delirium tremens started. At the end of the attack serum-potassium rapidly returned to normal. The change in serum-potassium was not associated with any variation in serum electrolytes or acid-base balance. In the 11 patients in whom delirium tremens did not develop serum-potassium concentration remained unchanged. |
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