DB'S MEDICAL RANTS

Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education

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Hyperkalemia – why

A 53-year-old man, with a history of DM II, hypertension, depression and hepatitis C,  He is admitted for muscle cramps.

Why the man was jaundiced

What could cause such acute cellular destruction?  When I first heard this presentation at morning report I assumed viral hepatitis.