Severe hypokalemia with cardiac arrest as an unusual manifestation of alcoholism

• Egile Nagusiak: Omar Abdulfattah (Egilea), Ebad Ur Rahman (Egilea), Zainab Alnafoosi (Egilea), Frances Schmidt (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Introduction: Unhealthy use of alcohol can be associated with serious adverse events. Patients with alcoholism and malnutrition are at high risk for electrolyte disturbances, commonly hypokalemia. Here in we describe a case of alcohol use disorder presented with weakness and subsequently developed c...