A Rare Case Study of BRASH Syndrome
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BRASH syndrome in a combination of clinical findings resulting in patients with baseline renal failure on long term AV nodal blocking agents. Our case is a patient on long term AV nodal blocker who came with complaints of light headedness and further was diagnosed as BRASH syndrome. Initially the patient's will be started on intravenous fluids, administration of calcium gluconate, intravenous dextrose and insulin.
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