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Hyperkalemia has been reported in 16 to 21 percent of patients hospitalized with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)^1,2,3. Although renal failure often accompanies hyperkalemia,^1,2 AIDS is associated with other abnormalities that impair renal excretion of potassium, such as adrenal insufficiency and hypoaldosteronism^3,4,5,6,7. Adrenal insufficiency and hypoaldosteronism, however, are rare in patients with AIDS^4,5.

Hyperkalemia develops in 20 to 53 percent of patients with AIDS while they are receiving high doses of trimethoprim in combination with sulfamethoxazole or dapsone for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia⁸. We recently encountered a patient with AIDS and P. carinii pneumonia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Case Report

Methods

Materials

Electrophysiologic Measurements

Transtubular Potassium-Concentration Gradient

Results

Discussion

Source Information

From the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center (M.J.C., P.C.F., D.D., H.S., T.R.K.); the Renal and Electrolyte Division, Departments of Medicine (M.J.C., P.C.F., A.P., B.C.-G., D.D., H.S., T.R.K.) and Physiology (T.R.K.), University of Pennsylvania; and the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania (P.C.F.) -- all in Philadelphia.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Kleyman at Medical Research (151), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

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