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Patients with acute hyperkalemia usually require other therapies to manage hyperkalemia until dialysis can be initiated. Patients who present with cardiac abnormalities caused by hyperkalemia should receive calcium gluconate or chloride (1 g intravenously) to reverse the cardiac effects. Temporary measures can be employed to shift extracellular potassium into the intracellular compartment to stabilize cellular membrane effects of excessive serum potassium levels. Such measures include the use of regular insulin (5 to 10 units intravenously) and dextrose (5% to 50% intravenously), or nebulized albuterol (10 to 20 mg). Sodium bicarbonate should not be used to shift extracellular potassium intracellularly in patients with CKD unless severe metabolic acidosis (pH less than 7.2) is present. These measures will decrease serum potassium levels within 30 to 60 minutes after treatment, but potassium must still be removed from the body. Shifting potassium to the intracellular compartment, however, decreases potassium removal by dialysis. Often, multiple dialysis sessions are required to remove potassium that is redistributed from the intracellular space back into the serum. 

Abnormality Causing Category Acute Renal Failure... 

Milan, D.J., Peterson, T.A., Ruskin, J.N., Peterson, R.T., and MacRae, C.A., Drugs that induce repolarization abnormalities cause bradycardia in zebrafish, Circulation, 107,1355-1358,2003. 

F. Role in therapy According to Micromedex, the goal of therapy with Adagen is to correct immune function by reversal of the biochemical abnormalities caused by adenosine deaminase deficiency. Adagen s role in therapy at this time would appear to be as an alternative when bone marrow transplantation is not feasible or has been unsuccessful. It may also be considered in lieu of transplantation in milder cases of adenosine deaminase deficiency. Adagen is preferable to red cell transfusions in these patients. While regular administration of Adagen can improve immune function and reduce the incidence of opportunistic infections in patients with ADA-deficient SCID, it is of no value in patients with immunodeficiency due to other causes. 

Warnings are given against combining piperazines, used to treat parasitic infections, with psychiatric medications known as phenothiazines, as piperazines can dramatically worsen the stiffness, tremor, and other movement abnormalities caused by phenothiazines. The combination may even cause violent seizures or convulsions. 

Organs or tissues showing abnormalities caused or possibly caused by the test chemical are examined in the lower-dose groups. 

Antianxiety Drugs, Including Behavioral Abnormalities Caused by Xanax and Halcion... 

Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Abnormalities Caused by Halcion and Xanax... 

Detects abnormalities caused by ischemia in the hyper-acute phase... 

A relatively new technique that uses radioactivity to study body processes and diagnose malfunctions is commonly called positron emission tomography (PET). In this technique radionuclides that decay by positron emission are incorporated into compounds. For example, brain function can be studied by incorporating 1gC into glucose, which is the main source of energy for the brain. By studying how this labeled glucose is metabolized in the brain, doctors can discover abnormalities caused by diseases such as cancer, Parkinson s disease, and epilepsy. 

MT MRI has been showm to be sensitive to other minor structural abnormalities caused by neurological disease. MTR maps were analyzed with a statistical package demonstrated that areas of epileptic activity which were not detected visually had statistically reduced MTR in the epileptic focus (Rugg-Gunn et al., 2003). When MT MRI was combined with DWI, reductions in both MTR and ADC were found in the epileptic focus of patients (Ferini-Strambi et al., 2000). 

The spectrum of hepatic abnormalities caused by drugs is broad, and encompasses the whole range of liver lesions from other causes. Adverse hepatic effects of drugs, classified as elsewhere in this book (see Chapter 8) include ... 

There are four additional variants with substitutions of either Glu 6-A3 or Glu 7-A4 (Tables 4 and 5) these variants are Hb-C (yS 6-A3 Lys) and Hb-G-Makassar (j8 6-A3 Ala), Hb-G-San Jos6 7-A4 Gly), and Hb-C-Siriraj ()8 7-A4 Lys). None of these abnormalities causes a sickling phenomenon comparable to that found for red cells with Hb-S. Hb-C has a slightly decreased solubility (H39) which probably explains the frequent occurrence of intracellular crystals of Hb-C in blood smears of Hb-C homozygotes. 

Murphy R, Mohr P. Two congenital neurological abnormalities caused by thalidomide. BMJ 1977 2(6096) 1191. 

Acute CSA-induced nephrotoxicity is a functional abnormality caused by a disproportion of the balance of vasoconstrictor and vasodilator mediators. The main characteristic of this form of nephrotoxicity is an intense intra-renal vasoconstriction, causing RBF decrease and RVR increase, accompanied by variable degree of GFR impairment. The main site for this vasoconstriction is the afferent arteriole but it also occurs in adjacent small arteries, including the glomerular tuft [13,15,16]. 

Treatment is symptomatic and supportive with emphasis on controlling neuromuscular hyperactivity. For patients exposed to strychnine fumes, the patient should be moved to fresh air, and eyes and skin should be decontaminated immediately with water. For patients with strychnine ingestions, emesis is not recommended because of the violent convulsive activity and increased risk of aspiration. Activated charcoal should be used immediately to minimize absorption. Once convulsions have been controlled, efforts to correct fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base abnormalities caused by repeated convulsions should be made. 

D. It is not claimed that this definition covers all cases of insanity but it offers a basis of classification which seems likely to be helpful and which seems to cover what might be called the normal types of insanity, where there are no lesions due to obviously abnormal causes. 

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