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A sepsis-like collapse with cytopenias, liver failure and diarrhoea becomes much more useful when ferritin, triglycerides and fibrinogen move up the list. Open this for a sharp reminder that HLH is not the end of the diagnosis, and that chronic thrombocytopenia with hepatosplenomegaly deserves a storage-disorder work-up.

A missed dialysis session and a high potassium result can look calmer than they are. Open this for the treatment sequence: monitor early, give calcium promptly, run shift-and-elimination measures in parallel, and do not let a normal ECG or well appearance slow dialysis planning.