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Ventricular arrhythmias and hypokalaemia
Lancet (London, England)
|July 31, 1976
Abstract:
Two cases of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia (torsade de pointes) due to chronic mild hypokalaemia, caused by hyperaldosteronism and familial periodic paralysis are described. Correction of the hypokalaemia, supplemented by mexiletine, controlled the arrhythmias.