Spurious hypokalemia in horses : the role of serum insulin levels and sample storage conditions

dc.contributor.author	Lemonnier, Louise
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-11T14:00:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-11T14:00:17Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.other	B-10986
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10832/1239
dc.description.abstract	Spurious hypokalemia is a laboratory result that is "analytically correct but does not reflect the in vivo plasma potassium concentration" (GAMA et al., 2011.). Not correlated to the clinical presentation, it can lead to misdiagnosis and unnecessary and dangerous choices of treatment. From 2009 to 2014, 11,5% of horses' laboratory results from PraxisLab veterinary laboratories presented unexplained hypokalemia. These results lead us to study the effects of high ambient temperature, delayed serum separation and postprandial insulin levels in equine blood samples.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	ló	en
dc.subject	horse	en
dc.subject	hypokalemia	en
dc.subject	inzulin	en
dc.subject	insulin	en
dc.subject	kálium	en
dc.subject	potassium	en
dc.subject	plazma	en
dc.subject	plasma	en
dc.title	Spurious hypokalemia in horses : the role of serum insulin levels and sample storage conditions	en
dc.type	Thesis	en