Hyperkalemia is an electrolyte abnormality with potentially life-threatening consequences.
Despite various guidelines, no universally accepted consensus exists on best practices for …

It is hard to overemphasize the role that metagenomics has had on our recent understanding
of RNA virus diversity. Metagenomics in the 21st century has brought with it an explosion in …

Hemolysis is conventionally defined as membrane disruption of red blood cells and other
blood cells that is accompanied by subsequent release of intracellular components into the …

Background Observational studies suggest that adequate dietary potassium intake (90–120
mmol/day) may be renoprotective, but the effects of increasing dietary potassium and the risk …

The constrained economic context leads laboratories to centralize their routine analyses on
high-throughput platforms, to which blood collection tubes are sent from peripheral sampling …

Potassium is one of the most requested laboratory tests. Its level is carefully monitored and
maintained in a narrow physiological range. Even slightly altered potassium values may …

Abstract Background The KBindER (K+ Binders in Emergency Room and hospitalized
patients) clinical trial is the first head-to-head evaluation of oral potassium binders (cation …

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and Laboratory Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the …

Hyperkalaemia is one of the most common electrolyte disorders in patients with
cardiovascular disease (CVD). The true burden of hyperkalaemia in the real-world setting …

Pseudohyperkalemia, a false elevation of potassium level in vitro, can be observed in
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients due to fragility of leukocytes along with a high …