Intensive care of severe life-threatening hypokalemia
https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2025.91.31
Abstract
A case report describes a severe hypokalemia (0,6 mmol/L) case with severe secondary hypokalemic generalized muscle weakness, bilateral symmetric calcification in the brain in the patients with chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis.
About the Authors
N. A. Chulakova
Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University; State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
CHULAKOVA Nadezhda Aleksandrovna – assistant, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care with a Course in Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Education, Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University; anesthesiologist-resuscitator, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care, State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital
A. F. Potapov
Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University; State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
POTAPOV Aleksandr Filippovich – MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care with a Course in Emergency Medical Care, Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Education, Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, anesthesiologist-resuscitator, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care, State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital”
K. V. Chulakov
State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
CHULAKOV Kirill Viktorovich – head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care
E. E. Matveeva
State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MATVEEVA Ekaterina Evgenievna – anesthesiologist-resuscitator, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care
I. A. Trimbach
State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Yakutsk Republican Clinical Hospital”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
TRIMBACH Ivan Anatolyevich – anesthesiologist-resuscitator, Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care
A. A. Ivanova
Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
IVANOVA Albina Ammosovna – MD, PhD, associate professor, head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care with a Course in Emergency Medical Care, Faculty of Postgraduate Training of Physicians, Medical Institute, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
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Chulakova N.A., Potapov A.F., Chulakov K.V., Matveeva E.E., Trimbach I.A., Ivanova A.A. Intensive care of severe life-threatening hypokalemia. Yakut Medical Journal. 2025;(3):145-150. https://doi.org/10.25789/YMJ.2025.91.31
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