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Oesophageal obstruction and ulceration caused by oral potassium therapy

James Pemberton
- 01 Mar 1970 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 2, pp 267-268
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A case is described of oesophageal ulceration and hold up following oral potassium therapy in a patient who had recently undergone mitral valve replacement.
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A case is described of oesophageal ulceration and hold up following oral potassium therapy. The patient had recently undergone mitral valve replacement.

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The critical role of chloride in the correction of hypokalemic alkalosis in man

TL;DR: It has been proposed that so long as hypochloremia persists, a disproportion between the quantity of sodium reabsorbed and the amount of penetrating anion available for reabsorption will maintain an accelerated rate of sodium-hydrogen and sodium-potassium exchange.
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Potassium-Induced Lesions of the Small Bowel: I. Clinical Aspects

TL;DR: Enteric-coated potassium chloride is responsible for a striking increase in ulcerative lesions of the small intestine; patients present with obstruction or signs of perforation, or both, and rarely with bleeding.
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The circumferential small-bowel ulcer: clinical aspects in 17 patients.

TL;DR: In 17 additional cases of circumferential small-bowel ulcer, thiazide potassium chloride therapy seems implicated in the causation of the lesion.
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Potassium-induced lesions of the small bowel. ii. pathology and pathogenesis.

TL;DR: The conclusion that an orally administered agent ulcerates the intestine by a topical, escharotic action is the natural one but the morphological and physiological evidence does not substantiate it.
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