Combination therapy with a loop diuretic and an aldosterone antagonist can produce
normokalemic hypochloremic alkalosis, a complication not previously documented in the …

Metabolic alkalosis, isolated or in combination with another abnormality, is the most
common acid-base disorder in patients with congestive heart failure. In most cases, it is a …

Chloride was recently recognized to play an important role in the pathophysiology of heart
failure (HF). Chloride manipulation, including the use of acetazolamide, may be a requisite …

Three postoperative patients with oliguric renal failure and hypochloremic metabolic
alkalosis were treated with hemodialysis using a specially prepared high-chloride, low …

In two patients, severe hyperkalemia and serious cardiac arrhythmia developed after
excessive use of potassium-containing salt substitutes. Both had impaired ability to handle …

The pathophysiology, symptomatology, and treatment of metabolic alkalosis are reviewed,
with emphasis on treatment with intravenous hydrochloric acid. Three buffering systems are …

The effect of magnesium treatment on serum potassium and potassium balance was
examined in three siblings with a recently described syndrome of hypokalemic alkalosis with …

When acetazolamide, an agent used to treat hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, was
inadvertently found to relieve a patient with the hypokalemic variety, he and another patient …

" Saline resistant" metabolic alkalosis, which is characterized by the persistent urinary
excretion of chloride in the presence of metabolic alkalosis, is known to occur in patients …

Severe alkalosis requires aggressive treatment. Twenty patients at the Talmadge Memorial
Hospital have been treated for metabolic alkalosis by infusion of dilute hydrochloric acid …