The Relation of Cardiovascular Phenomena to Metabolic Changes in a Patient with Chronic Hypokalemia

1 July 1956

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation

Vol. 14 (1) , 60-71
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.14.1.60

Abstract

Cardiovascular phenomena were studied and correlated with metabolic data in an adult male with chronic hypokalemia. The appearance and disappearance of postural hypotension, the changes in heart rate, the S-T segment shifts, and the U-wave amplitudes correlated well with the changing serum potassium level during experimental acute potassium depletion. QRS and T-wave changes could not be correlated with metabolic data. Comparison with the cardiovascular manifestations of experimental potassium depletion in normal subjects suggested that this patient had a chronic potassium depletion of at least 300 mEq.

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