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1. Mild hyperkalemia and low eGFR a tedious recipe for cardiac disaster in the elderly: an unusual reversible cause of syncope and heart block

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Eyal Herzog, Carlos L. Alviar, Juan Pablo Cordova, Balaji Pratap, Aleksandr Korniyenko, Fahad Javed, and Emad F. Aziz

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Eelderly patients, hyperkalemia, renal failure, syncope, heart block, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
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Hyperkalemia affects the myocardial tissue producing electrocardiographic abnormalities, such as prolongation of the P-R interval, tall peaked T waves, a reduction in the amplitude and an increase in the duration of P wave, and atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, including variable degree heart blocks. Elderly patients are particularly predisposed to developing hyperkalemia and the associated abnormalities due to an age-related reduction in glomerular filtration rate and pre-existing medical problems. Therefore, the impact of aging on potassium homeostasis must be taken into consideration, and preventive measures, such as early recognition of possible hyperkalemia in the geriatric population treated with certain medications or supplements must be investigated. The threshold for cardiac arrhythmias in the elderly can be lower than the general population. We report 3 unusual cases of mild hyperkalemia in elderly patients presenting with hypotension, syncope and variable degree heart blocks which resolved spontaneously with the correction of hyperkalemia.

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2011
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2. Mild hyperkalemia and low eGFR a tedious recipe for cardiac disaster in the elderly: an unusual reversible cause of syncope and heart block

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Carlos L. Alviar, Emad F. Aziz, Juan P. Cordova, Aleksandr Korniyenko, Eyal Herzog, Balaji Pratap, and Fahad Javed

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lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, medicine.medical_specialty, renal failure, Hyperkalemia, Heart block, Population, Renal function, Case Report, urologic and male genital diseases, elderly patients, heart block, Geriatric population, Internal medicine, T wave, medicine, Eelderly patients, hyperkalemia, renal failure, syncope, heart block, Intensive care medicine, education, education.field_of_study, Myocardial tissue, biology, business.industry, Syncope (genus), nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, hyperkalemia, female genital diseases and pregnancy complications, lcsh:RC666-701, syncope, Cardiology, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Hyperkalemia affects the myocardial tissue producing electrocardiographic abnormalities, such as prolongation of the P-R interval, tall peaked T waves, a reduction in the amplitude and an increase in the duration of P wave, and atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, including variable degree heart blocks. Elderly patients are particularly predisposed to developing hyperkalemia and the associated abnormalities due to an age-related reduction in glomerular filtration rate and pre-existing medical problems. Therefore, the impact of aging on potassium homeostasis must be taken into consideration, and preventive measures, such as early recognition of possible hyperkalemia in the geriatric population treated with certain medications or supplements must be investigated. The threshold for cardiac arrhythmias in the elderly can be lower than the general population. We report 3 unusual cases of mild hyperkalemia in elderly patients presenting with hypotension, syncope and variable degree heart blocks which resolved spontaneously with the correction of hyperkalemia.

Published
2011

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