About Usefulness of Kalemia Monitoring after Blunt Liver Trauma

Table 1

Clinical series of 11 patients with blunt liver injury submitted to surgery. D1, D3 and D7 are, respectively, the 1st, 3rd and 7th postoperative day.

Patient (no.)	Sex	Age (yrs)	Preoperative kalemia (mEq/L)	D1 kalemia (mEq/L)	D3 kalemia (mEq/L)	D7 kalemia (mEq/L)	Liver injury moore grading
1	M	38	4.3	3.3	4	4.2	IV
2	M	29	2.8	3.2	4.3	4.5	IV
3	M	42	2.8	3	4.5	4.8	V	Cholecystectomy TVHE	Right hepatic vein laceration
4	M	32	4	4.2	4.2	3.7	III
5	M	21	4.3	3.4	3.4	3.8	V		Choleperitoneum
6	M	14	3.4	3.4	3.1	3.8	III
7	F	31	3.2	3.3	3.9	4.2	IV	Cholecystectomy	Choleperitoneum
8	M	64	3.2	3.4	3.7	4.7	IV
9	F	33	2.9	4.2	3.4	4.7	IV	Segmentectomy II
10	M	22	4	4.2	4.2	4.3	III
11	M	26	2.1	2.8	4	4.5	V