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Pseudohyponatremia: interference of hyperglycemia on indirect potentiometry

  • Charles R. Lefèvre ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Charles Gibert , Laure Maucorps , Joséphine Vasse , Marie Michel , Marine Chupin , Fanny Zhao , Laurent Desmurs , Nicolas Collet , Mathilde Di Filippo , Régine Cartier , Denis Monneret and Oriane Marmontel

Corresponding author: Charles R. Lefèvre, Laboratoire de Biochimie-Toxicologie, Hôpital Pontchaillou, CHU de Rennes, 2 rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35000, Rennes, France, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2022-0766).


Received: 2022-08-05
Accepted: 2022-10-14
Published Online: 2022-10-24
Published in Print: 2023-01-27

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