title: Spurious hyperkalaemia: an insight.
abstract: Hyperkalaemia is a common electrolyte disorder with potentially lethal consequences and can lead to life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias. Spurious hyperkalaemia, also known as pseudohyperkalaemia or factitious hyperkalaemiais, is also quite common in clinical practice and it's a source of avoidable emergency department visits or hospital admissions. We report a case in which alarming hyperkalaemia was found in a patient having Chronic Monomyelocytic Leukaemia on two different occasions, later diagnosed to be spurious.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Khawaja Salman
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Zaki
authors.forename: Uzma
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Majid
authors.forename: Najmul
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Islam
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers / Q000009:adverse effects; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006947:Hyperkalemia / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D019808:Losartan / Q000009:adverse effects; D011188:Potassium / Q000097:blood*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D047228:Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers; D019808:Losartan; D011188:Potassium