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. 2024 Apr 30;16(4):e59333. doi: 10.7759/cureus.59333

Table 2. Articles reporting the number of hyperkalemic patients among traumatic rhabdomyolysis patients.

#: number of hypernatremic patients

TUR: trapped under rubble; HE: heavy exercise

Studies (Authors, year) Cause Cut-off (mEq/dl) Sample size Number# Test timing
An, 1984 [46] Mix 6 23 20 On admission
Malik et al., 1993 [45] Beating Not mentioned 10 5 On admission
Knottenbelt, 1994 [44] Beating Not mentioned 200 8 On admission
Sinert et al., 1994 [43] HE 5.5 35 0 On admission
Iskit et al., 2001 [41] TUR 5.5 10 4 Not mentioned
Erek et al., 2002 [40] TUR Not mentioned 639 268 On admission
Pocan et al., 2002 [39] TUR Not mentioned 31 26 On admission
Demirkiran et al., 2003 [38] TUR 5.5 18 7 On hospital stay
Sever et al., 2003 [37] TUR 6 595 176 On admission
Gunal et al., 2004 [36] TUR Not mentioned 16 1 On admission
Aoki et al., 2007 [35] TUR 5 345 106 Not mentioned
Kang et al., 2008 [34] TUR Not mentioned 49 39 Not mentioned
Li et al., 2009 [33] TUR Not mentioned 32 9 On admission
Ozturk et al., 2009 [32] TUR 6 45 21 On admission
Bonomini et al., 2011 [31] TUR 5.5 10 5 On admission
He et al., 2011 [30] TUR 5.5 132 21 On admission
Rosedale and Wood, 2011 [29] Beating 5 44 5 On admission
Guner and Oncu, 2014 [27] TUR 5.5 46 43 On hospital stay
Hernández-Contreras et al., 2015 [26] HE Not mentioned 11 0 Not mentioned
Omar et al., 2016 [25] Surgery Not mentioned 17 6 On hospital stay
Safari et al., 2017 [16] TUR 5 135 72 On admission
Stewart et al., 2017 [23] War injury 6 778 44 On hospital stay
Thompson et al., 2018 [22] HE 5.5 11 1 On admission
Thongprayoon et al., 2020 [20] Heat stroke Not mentioned 1049 68 Not mentioned
Mao et al., 2021 [19] HE 5.5 71 0 On admission
Webber et al., 2021 [18] HE 5.3 157 74 On hospital stay
Alafifi et al., 2023 [17] mix Not mentioned 35 15 On hospital stay
Lim et al., 2023 [15] HE Not mentioned 93 29 Not mentioned