Chronic, diagnosis-resistant hypokalaemia

Abstract

pulse increased from 78 to 90 beats/min after 2 min of Case description standing upright. The cardiac rhythm was not exactly regular (the ECG later showed two supraventricular A 22-year-old house painter referred himself to the extrasystoles/min). The chest, lung, abdomen and skin nephrology outpatient service because of a chronic showed no obvious abnormalities. Muscular strength unexplained hypokalaemia associated with chronic was unremarkable. fatigue. The hypokalaemia had first been discovered 7