CHLORIDORRHEA
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 68 (1) , 105-116
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1954.01260050107014
Abstract
THE ASSOCIATION of potassium deficiency with diarrhea is rather common, the potassium deficiency being secondary to the diarrhea. Usually diarrhea is associated with acidosis because of the excess of base over anions in large bowel excretions. The patient who forms the basis of this report presented the paradoxical picture of severe diarrhea associated with alkalosis. The unusual status of an excess of chloride over base in the diarrheal stool of this patient with an associated hypokalemic alkalosis and severe clinical sequelae has many features in common with the unusual instances of infants with congenital alkalosis and diarrhea presented by Gamble and his associates17and Darrow.10This report describes the results of studies performed upon the patient and the effects of different therapeutic modalities upon the entity. The chemical methods employed have been reported.* Stool electrolytes were determined by the method of Wallace. REPORT OF A CASE A 66-year-old white man was admitted to the hospital onKeywords
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