Table 6.
Adverse effects of pulse therapy
Adverse effects (number of cycles = 808) | |
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Hyperglycemia > 200 mg/dl* | 74 episodes (9% of cycles) |
Hypernatremia | 14 episodes (1.7% of cycles) |
Acute hypertension | 19 episodes (2.3% of cycles) |
*patients did not fast because the visits to the day hospital were after lunch time.