Hyperkalemia in patients treated with endoradiotherapy combined with amino acid infusion is associated with severe metabolic acidosis

Abstract Background Amino acid co-infusion for renal protection in endoradiotherapy (ERT) applied as prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy (RLT) or peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has been shown to cause severe hyperkalemia. The pathophysiology behind th...

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Main Authors: Christian H. Pfob, Matthias Eiber, Peter Luppa, Florian Maurer, Tobias Maurer, Robert Tauber, Calogero D’Alessandria, Benedikt Feuerecker, Klemens Scheidhauer, Armin Ott, Uwe Heemann, Markus Schwaiger, Christoph Schmaderer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-02-01
Series:EJNMMI Research
Subjects:
RLT
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13550-018-0370-z