SERUM POTASSIUM CONCENTRATION IN ACIDEMIC STATES
SERUM POTASSIUM CONCENTRATION IN ACIDEMIC STATES
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DOI:
10.1159/000182061
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
VAAMONDE, CA
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作者:
PEREZ, GO;OSTER, JR;VAAMONDE, CA
It has been generally accepted that acidosis results in hyperkalemia because of shifts of K from the intracellular to the extracellular compartment. There is ample clinical and experimental evidence, to support the conclusion that uncomplicated organic acidemias do not produce hyperkalemia. In acidosis associated with mineral acids (respiratory acidosis, end-stage uremic acidosis, NH4Cl- or CaCl2-induced acidosis), acidemia results in predictable increases in serum K concentration. In acidosis associated with nonmineral organic acids (diabetic and alcoholic acidosis, lactic acidosis, methanol and the less common forms of organic acidemias secondary to methyl-malonica and isovaleric acids, and ethylene glycol, paraldehyde and salicylate intoxications), serum K concentration usually remains within the normal range in uncomplicated cases. A number of factors may be responsible for hyperkalemia in some of these patients other than the acidemia. These include dehydration and renal hypoperfusion, preexisting renal disease, hypercatabolism, diabetes mellitus, hypoaldosteronism, the status of K balance and therapy. The mechanism(s) of this differing effect of mineral and organic acidemias on transmembrane movement of K remains undefined. The prevalent hypothesis, favors the free penetrance of the organic anion into cells without creating a gradient for the H+ and, obviating the efflux of intracellular K. The importance of the presence of hyperkalemia in clinical states of organic acidemias is obvious. A search for the complicating factors reviewed above should be undertaken since organic acidemias should not be expected to be accompanied by elevations of serum K concentration. The classical teaching that the absence of hyperkalemia during severe acidosis is indicative of severe K deficiency, may not be universally valid in patients with uncomplicated organic acidemias.