Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3237358 | Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America | 2009 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
A thorough working knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening electrolyte abnormalities in cancer patients, especially hyponatremia, hypoglycemia, and hypercalcemia, is essential to the successful practice of emergency medicine. Although most minor abnormalities have no specific treatment, severe clinical manifestations of several notable electrolytes occur with significant frequency in the setting of malignancy. The treatment of life-threatening electrolyte abnormalities is reviewed here. Promising future treatments directed at the underlying physiology are also introduced.
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Authors
Robert F. Kacprowicz, Jeremy D. Lloyd,