Even if you’re not having any symptoms, hyperkalemia can affect your heart and other parts of your body, so it’s important to treat it. The type of treatment you get depends on whether it’s ...

Hyperkalemia can cause life-threatening arrhythmia, and thus recognizing related patterns on the ECG is crucial. The ECG findings of hyperkalemia change as the potassium level increases, from ...

A new study used unsupervised machine learning consensus clustering to identify and characterize distinct clusters of those with hospitalized with hyperkalemia ... examined the effects on all ...

Hyperkalemia makes it hard for your nerve and muscle cells to work like they should. As a result, you may have muscle weakness, tiredness, paralysis, abnormal heart rhythms, chest pain ...

SGLT2 inhibitor use is associated with a reduced risk of hyperkalemia and lower rates of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system ...

Hyperkalemia can cause an 'irregular heart beat that can lead to cardiac arrest.' Patients who take this medicine to manage ...

Hyperkalemia is a potentially serious condition that may be associated with numerous pathophysiological conditions. Clinically significant hyperkalemia reduces membrane excitability and disturbs ...

The kaliuretic effect of loop diuretics such as furosemide means that hyperkalemia associated with ... including the heart, blood vessels, and brain. Thus, mineralocorticoid-receptor antagonists ...

Adverse effects of both spironolactone and eplerenone include potentially life-threatening hyperkalemia, which can be induced by renal insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, advanced heart failure ...

Also known as hyperkalemia, the condition that happens due to high potassium levels can disrupt the normal electrical signals ...

The classic digoxin effect ― or the “reverse checkmark ... Digoxin toxicity causes hyperkalemia, or high potassium. The sodium/potassium ATPase pump normally causes sodium to leave cells ...

SGLT2 inhibitors may enable continuation of RAAS inhibitors for hypertension treatment, which is linked with better kidney and cardiovascular outcomes.