Potassium, Chloride and Bicarbonate Values

Potassium, chloride and bicarbonate values in 139 patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis from 1986 through 1997. 95% confidence interval of the normal values within a frame. The continual vomiting and the impossibility to feed leads to a hypochloremic (rarely, to a hypopotassemic as well) metabolic alcalosis by loss of hydrochloride acid (Miozzari HH. Inauguraldissertation der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Bern).