ArticleJournal of anesthesia2009
Hyperkalemia during surgery: is it an early warning of propofol infusion syndrome?
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- The incidence of hyperkalemia in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism after ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation vs. parathyroidectomy.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Propofol-Related Infusion Syndrome: A Bibliometric Analysis of the 100 Most-Cited Articles.Cureus · 2023Review
- Recurrent Hyperkalemia During General Anesthesia in a Dog.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
- Can we predict who will develop postoperative hyperkalaemia after parathyroidectomy in dialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism?BMC nephrology · 2019Observational
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- Life-threatening hyperkalemia in a patient with normal renal function.Clinical kidney journal · 2014Article
- Incidental finding of severe hyperkalemia in a patient with end-stage renal disease during video-assisted lung lobectomy: A case report.Saudi journal of anaesthesiaArticle
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Abstract
We present a case of severe hyperkalemia in a 48-year-old man after short-term infusion of an average dose of propofol. We suspected that the hyperkalemia in this patient was a sign of propofol infusion syndrome. The patient was undergoing a video-assisted esophagectomy, for which one-lung ventilation, with air/oxygen, isoflurane, and continuous epidural analgesia was supplemented with propofol infusion. In the intraoperative period, the patient developed severe hyperkalemia with mild acidosis but no cardiovascular failure. There were no other evident causes of hyperkalemia as documented by laboratory data. The procedure was abandoned and the patient was taken to postoperative recovery, where his potassium levels returned to normal at the end of 10 h.
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