Case 30-2020: A 54-Year-Old Man with Sudden Cardiac Arrest

N Engl J Med. 2020 Sep 24;383(13):1263-1275. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2002420.

Authors

Elazer R Edelman¹, Neel M Butala¹, Laura L Avery¹, Andrew L Lundquist¹, Anand S Dighe¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (E.R.E.), the Departments of Medicine (N.M.B., A.L.L.), Radiology (L.L.A.), and Pathology (A.S.D.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (E.R.E., N.M.B., A.L.L.), Radiology (L.L.A.), and Pathology (A.S.D.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston, and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (E.R.E.).

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aldosterone / blood
Blood Chemical Analysis
Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Electroencephalography
Fatal Outcome
Glycyrrhetinic Acid / adverse effects*
Glycyrrhetinic Acid / pharmacology
Glycyrrhiza / adverse effects*
Humans
Hydrocortisone / urine
Hyperaldosteronism / chemically induced
Hyperaldosteronism / diagnosis*
Hypokalemia / diagnosis
Hypokalemia / etiology
Male
Middle Aged
Mineralocorticoids / blood*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ventricular Fibrillation / complications

Substances

Mineralocorticoids
Aldosterone
Glycyrrhetinic Acid
Hydrocortisone

Grants and funding

R01 GM049039/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States