Background Hypokalemia induced by diuretic abuse is a life-threatening emergency. Case presentation A 22-years-old female nurse with a body mass index 18 suffered from myalgias, vomiting and diarrhea.

An obese patient, striving to reduce, ingested an excessive amount of licorice, leading to severe potassium depletion and an acute, rapidly progressive myopathy and myoglobinuria. M.G., a 45-year ...

Hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia are occasional ... Additionally, none of the five patients developed severe hyperkalemia or severe hypermagnesemia. The authors also report good efficacy of long ...

This case shows that furosemide-induced severe hypokalemia may present without cardiac arrest, may be survived without sequelae and may be accompanied by transient rhabdomyolysis. Chronic ...