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  2. Hyperkalemia - Wikipedia

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    Clinical practice guidelines recommend giving 6.8 mmol for typical EKG findings of hyperkalemia. [14] This is 10 mL of 10% calcium chloride or 30 mL of 10% calcium gluconate. [14] Though calcium chloride is more concentrated, it is caustic to the veins and should only be given through a central line. [14]

  3. Pseudohypoaldosteronism - Wikipedia

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    People with PHA2 have hypertension and hyperkalemia despite having normal kidney function. Many individuals with PHA2 will develop hyperkalemia first, and will not present with hypertension until later in life. They also commonly experience both hyperchloremia and metabolic acidosis together, a condition called hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis.

  4. List of optometric abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Certain abbreviations are current within the profession of optometry. They are used to denote clinical conditions, examination techniques and findings, and various forms of treatment. They are used to denote clinical conditions, examination techniques and findings, and various forms of treatment.

  5. Acute kidney injury - Wikipedia

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    Metabolic acidosis, hyperkalemia, and pulmonary edema may require medical treatment with sodium bicarbonate, antihyperkalemic measures, and diuretics. [34] Lack of improvement with fluid resuscitation, therapy-resistant hyperkalemia, metabolic acidosis, or fluid overload may necessitate artificial support in the form of dialysis or ...

  6. ICD-10-CM - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [ 2 ] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization .

  7. Potassium-sparing diuretic - Wikipedia

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    [10] Because these diuretics are weakly natriuretic , they do not cause clinically significant blood pressure changes and thus, are not used as primary therapy for hypertension. [ 11 ] They can be used in combination with other anti-hypertensives or drugs that cause hypokalemia to help maintain a normal range for potassium.

  8. Medical classification - Wikipedia

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    Coding diagnoses and procedures is the assignment of codes from a code set that follows the rules of the underlying classification or other coding guidelines. The current version of the ICD, ICD-10, was endorsed by WHO in 1990. WHO Member states began using the ICD-10 classification system from 1994 for both morbidity and mortality reporting.

  9. Apparent mineralocorticoid excess syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The treatment for AME is based on the blood pressure control with Aldosterone antagonist like Spironolactone which also reverses the hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and other anti-hypertensives. Renal transplant is found curative in almost all clinical cases. [10] AME is exceedingly rare, with fewer than 100 cases recorded worldwide. [8]