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To the Editor: Patients with cancer may have a variety of metabolic and immunologic abnormalities that are thought to be caused by different humoral factors secreted by the tumors and are called paraneoplastic syndromes.¹ We have seen several patients with cancer with unexplained hyperkalemia that we attributed to a paraneoplastic process.

Among 82 patients with cancer who were admitted to our hospital in 1993, 3 were identified with persistent hyperkalemia that could not be attributed to renal failure, pseudohyperkalemia, or drugs.^2,3 These three patients underwent detailed studies of renal function, electrolyte metabolism, and the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system and had measurements of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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