Acute Aluminum Encephalopathy in an Uremic Patient
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- case report
- Published by S. Karger AG in Nephron
- Vol. 51 (1) , 103-106
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000185252
Abstract
A patient on maintenance hemodialysis developed an acute encephalopathy closely related to a rapid increase in serum aluminum levels. Aluminum hydroxide and sucralfate had been given in large amounts for the treatment of a gastrointestinal bleeding episode. The breach of the gastrointenstinal barrier to aluminum absorption, the increase in gastric pH caused by cimetidine, and the presence of gastric telangiectasia acting together in a uremic patient could have precipitated the acute aluminum encephalopathy.Keywords
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