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A 32 year old transplant recipient is found to have hyperkalaemia at a routine clinic appointment. Her blood results are shown below. Her baseline creatinine is usually 80 μmol/L. Her BP is 118/69 mmHg. On the morning of the clinic, she took her last dose of an antibiotic, trimethoprim, for a UTI diagnosed via her GP.
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Clinical Practice Guidelines. Treatment of acute hyperkalaemia in Adults. UK Renal Association; 2014.
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Fairweather, J., Findlay, M., Isles, C. (2020). Hyperkalaemia. In: Clinical Companion in Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38320-6_18
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