Study Of Serum Sodium And Potassium Level In Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease Attending Jorhat Medical College Hospital A Hospital Based Study.
Hyponatremia is a common finding in approximately 57% of hospitalized patients with chronic liver disease and in 40% of outpatients with liver disease. Chronic alcoholic patients experience low blood concentrations of key electrolytes and severe alterations in the body's acid base balance. Aim of the study is to evaluate serum sodium and potassium levels in patients with alcoholic liver disease attending JMCH. The study design is hospital based case control study. For the study 40 no of cases are selected on the basis of clinical history. Forty no of apparently healthy age and sex matched individuals have been taken from normal population as control group. Liver function test, serum sodium and potassium are done on vitros 250 auto analyser based on principle of reflectance spectroscopy. After evaluation, hyponatremia is found among the cases to be statistically significant. The serum potassium level is also mildly decreased, but not significant.