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Potassium Handling by the Kidney. Hyperkalaemia
Author(s) -
Barratt L. J.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1981.tb03555.x
Subject(s) - medicine , potassium , intensive care medicine , kidney , hyperkalemia , metallurgy , materials science
In this brief review, an attempt is made to summaries the renal handling of potassium and factors influencing the excretion of this ion and from these concepts develop a series of theoretical mechanisms which might explain most of the clinical situations in which hyperkalaemia has been observed .