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Mysterious hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest in a newborn infant undergoing continuous veno-venous hemofiltration dialysis: answer

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  1. Paediatric Critical Care, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    Gad Bar-Joseph, Michael Halberthal & Ihab Khatib

  2. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Gad Bar-Joseph & Israel Zelikovic

  3. Paediatric Nephrology, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    Mahdi Tarabia, Israel Eisenstein & Israel Zelikovic

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Bar-Joseph, G., Tarabia, M., Halberthal, M. et al. Mysterious hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest in a newborn infant undergoing continuous veno-venous hemofiltration dialysis: answer. Pediatr Nephrol 23, 1055–1057 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-008-0806-1

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