Table 1.
Depicting laboratories before and after initiation of treatment
| On day of admission | Before treatment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium‐serum | Latest ref range: 3.4‐5.1 meq/L | 6.5 (HH) | 4.2 |
| Chloride‐serum | Latest ref range: 101‐111 meq/L | 96 (L) | 100 |
| CO2 content‐serum | Latest ref range: 22‐32 mmol/L | 29 | 28 |
| Anion gap | Latest ref range: 1‐13 mmol/L | 12 | 10 |
| Glucose | Latest ref range: 70‐125 mg/dL | 90 | 85 |
| Urea nitrogen‐serum | Latest ref range: 8‐22 mg/dL | 51 (H) | 23 |
| Creatinine | Latest ref range: 0.7‐1.2 mg/dL | 1.5 (H) | 0.9 |
| Glomerular filtration rate | Latest ref range: >60 mL/min/1.73 mE2 | >60 | >60 |
| Osmo, calculated | Latest ref range: 275‐300 mOsm/kg | 287 | 295 |
| Protein, total‐serum | Latest ref range: 6.0‐8.3 g/dL | 8.4 (H) | 6.6 |
| Albumin, BCG‐serum | Latest ref range: 3.5‐5.0 g/dL | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| Calcium, albumin adjusted | Latest ref range: 8.9‐10.3 mg/dL | 8.8 | 10 |
| Calcium, total serum | Latest ref range: 8.9‐10.3 mg/dL | 8.8 | |
| Bilirubin, total‐serum | Latest ref range: 0.3‐1.6 mg/dL | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Bilirubin, direct‐serum | Latest ref range: ≤0.5 mg/dL | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| AST (SGOT) | Latest ref range: 10‐42 U/L | 40 | 38 |
| ALT (SGPT) | Latest ref range: 17‐63 IU/L | 74 (H) | 60 |
| Alkaline phosphatase serum | Latest ref range: 38‐126 IU/L | 506 (H) | 347 |
| Uric acid | Latest ref range F‐3.4‐70 mg/dL | 11 | 6.3 |