<prompt> The most common electrolyte abnormality found in patients with normal anion gap metabolic acidosis isHyperchloremia.Hypochloremia.Hyperkalemia.Hypokalemia.  <response>: Ans. A. Hyperchloremia.In a normal anion gaps metabolic acidosis there is by definition a rise in the serum chloride equivalent to the fall in the serum bicarbonate such that the anion gap Na-Cl-HCO3 remains unchanged. 