Respiratory Alkalosis: Follow-up

The following are the major diseases or complications that may be contributed to by respiratory (breathing-related) alkalosis:

Respiratory system (J00-J99)

• Cor pulmonale – right heart enlargement due to lung structural changes.

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency to heart failure).

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)

• Disorders of consciousness
• Coma
• Seizures

Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).

• Hypocalcemia (calcium deficiency); (in alkalosis, calcium is increasingly bound to albumin, resulting in: ionized calcium decreases).
• Tetany (paw position) due torespiratory alkalosis due to psychogenic hyperventilation (increased breathing, which goes beyond the need).