Two-year-old girl with metabolic acidosis and hyperkalaemia

Giuseppa Patti; Viviana Palazzo; Angelica Pagliazzi; Laura Confalonieri; Natascia Di Iorgi

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2019-318393

Two-year-old girl with metabolic acidosis and hyperkalaemia

Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed. 2021 Feb;106(1):28-30. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318393. Epub 2020 May 28.

Authors

Giuseppa Patti^{1

2}, Viviana Palazzo³, Angelica Pagliazzi⁴, Laura Confalonieri^{5

2}, Natascia Di Iorgi^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, University of Genova, Genova, Italy giusypattis@gmail.com.
² Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophtalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
³ Medical Genetics Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Clinical and Experimental Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences Mario Serio, Firenze, Toscana, Italy.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.

PMID: 32467257
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318393

Abstract

Hyperkalaemia hypertension and metabolic acidosis in children can pose a challenge of both diagnosis and management. This case chronicles the diagnostic journey of a 2-year-old girl with hyperkalaemia associated with hypertension and metabolic acidosis accidentally detected during a viruses.

Keywords: endocrinology; paediatric practice.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acidosis* / diagnosis
Acidosis* / etiology
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Hyperkalemia* / complications
Hyperkalemia* / diagnosis
Hypertension