RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Life threatening hyperkalaemia with diarrhoea during ACE inhibition
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 154
OP 155
DO 10.1136/emj.2003.011734
VO 22
IS 2
A1 J McGuigan
A1 S Robertson
A1 C Isles
YR 2005
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/22/2/154.abstract
AB A 67 year old woman developed acute renal failure with serum potassium 9.4 mmol/l requiring emergency dialysis after seven days of diarrhoea while taking an ACE inhibitor for vascular disease. Review of the literature, the British National Formulary, and the patient information leaflets for each of the 11 ACE inhibitors currently marketed in the UK suggests that this potentially life threatening complication of ACE inhibition is not yet widely recognised.