Electrolyte and renal changes in severe potassium depletion

Metabolism. 1965 Jul;14(7):800-12. doi: 10.1016/0026-0495(65)90007-7.

Abstract

This report describes electrolyte changes and some clinical aspects of the renal disease associated with the loss of potassium through the gastrointestinal tract in 2 patients with diarrhea. In one of them, the diarrhea resulted from non-tropical sprue, in the other, from non-beta islet-cell adenoma of pancreas. In both patients, some observations were repeated after potassium repletion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenoma / complications*
  • Adenoma / pathology*
  • Adenoma / surgery*
  • Adenoma, Islet Cell*
  • Diarrhea / complications*
  • Diarrhea / drug therapy*
  • Diarrhea / etiology*
  • Diarrhea / pathology*
  • Electrolytes / blood*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney / pathology*
  • Kidney Diseases*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreas*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / complications*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Paralysis / etiology*
  • Potassium / pharmacology*
  • Potassium / therapeutic use*
  • Potassium Deficiency / etiology*
  • Potassium Deficiency / pathology*
  • Tetany / etiology*
  • Treatment Outcome*

Substances

  • Electrolytes
  • Potassium

Supplementary concepts

  • Pancreatic adenoma