Open AccessDialyzable Currents of Injury in Potassium Intoxication Resembling Acute Myocardial Infarction or Pericarditis
Author(s) -
Harold Levine,
Sidney H. Wanzer,
John P. Merrill
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.13.1.29
Subject(s) - medicine , pericarditis , cardiology , myocardial infarction , acute pericarditis , infarction , potassium , electrolyte , hemodialysis , acute kidney injury , chemistry , organic chemistry , electrode
A byproduct of experience with the artificial kidney was the detection of reversible electrocardiographic "currents of injury" in patients with electrolyte imbalance. These changes occurred irrespective of anatomic alterations and resembled the changes of acute pericarditis or myocardial infarction. The electrolyte basis for the "current of injury" was established by the prompt abolition of the RS-T segment elevations, when the electrolyte imbalance was corrected by means of artificial hemodialysis.
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