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• kalaemia

Noun

kalemia

1. (medicine) The presence of potassium in the blood.
   • 1955 February 1, Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., “Post-traumatic Renal Insufficiency in Military Casualties”, in The American Journal of Medicine, volume 18, number 2, II. Management, Use of an Artificial Kidney, Prognosis, page 187:

     Patients with renal insufficiency following trauma present special problems in management because clinical uremia, high levels of azotemia and kalemia, and myocardial potassium intoxication develop rapidly.

   • 1982, Veterinary and Human Toxicology, page 67:

     One of the criteria of efficiency is the reversal of these potassium movements, with decrease of kalemia and increase of the intra-cellular cation, expressing a recovery of ATPase activity.

   • 2012, C. Ronco, Critical Care Nephrology:

     Various factors influence the effects of hyper and hypokalemia on the heart: the rate of the change in kalemia levels, the plasmatic concentration of remaining ions which contribute to the cell Em, and the simultaneous use of drugs.

Derived terms

• hyperkalemia
• hypokalemia

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