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. 2014 Aug 15;9:128. doi: 10.1186/s13023-014-0128-2

Table 6.

Adverse effects of pulse therapy

Adverse effects (number of cycles = 808)
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.