Malignant Arrhythmias in Relation to Serum Potassium Values in Patients with an Acute Myocardial Infarction
- 12 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Medica Scandinavica
- Vol. 209 (S647) , 101-107
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1981.tb02645.x
Abstract
The results presented here confirm that patients with A.M.I. who are also hypokalemic have an increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias, in particular, V.F. It is also suggested that for patients with low potassium values the risk is due to the hypokalemia and not the diuretics.Keywords
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