Spurious hyperkalaemia and hyponatraemia in a patient with thrombocythaemia
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 19 (5) , 496-497
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.19.5.496
Abstract
Changes in serum potassium and sodium during blood clotting in a patient with thrombocythaemia are described. In such patients falsely high results for potassium and falsely low results for sodium may be obtained.Keywords
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