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Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis with Arrhythmia

New England Journal of Medicine, 1972
IN 1963, Klein and his co-workers1 described a variant of periodic paralysis in which intermittent attacks of muscular paralysis occurred in patients who also had cardiac arrhythmia.
L P, Levitt, L I, Rose, D M, Dawson
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Hypokalemic paralysis in a professional bodybuilder

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012
Severe hypokalemia is a potentially life-threatening disorder and is associated with variable degrees of skeletal muscle weakness, even to the point of paralysis. On rare occasions, diaphragmatic paralysis from hypokalemia can lead to respiratory arrest. There may also be decreased motility of smooth muscle, manifesting with ileus or urinary retention.
Florian B, Mayr, Hans, Domanovits, Anton N, Laggner   +2 more
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Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis in an African male: a case report

Clinical Case Reports (discontinued), 2015
Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis is a rare manifestation of thyrotoxicosis and is rarely reported in non-Asian populations. A 26-year-old Ethiopian male who presented with recurrent flaccid tetraparesis, hypokalemia, and hyperthyroidism is ...
Thomas Kellerth
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Hypokalemic periodic paralysis

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1988
We report two cases of hypokalemic periodic paralysis in children presenting to the emergency department with diffuse weakness and no antecedent history of neurologic disease. The literature is briefly reviewed. Any child with acute weakness and normal mental status should undergo serum potassium determination to allow prompt diagnosis and therapy.
T, Schiller, P S, Auerbach
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Hypokalemic paralysis.

The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, 1994
A case of Hypokalemic paralysis is reported which had an atypical onset and clinical features. The paralysis totally recovered on replacement of potassium.
S, Ramakrishnan, A K, Desai, A M, Waingankar, V, Chandrasekar, A, Hakim, P J, Mehta, S L, Soneji   +6 more
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CAFFEINE-INDUCED HYPOKALEMIC PARALYSIS IN PREGNANCY

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2001
Excessive ingestion of caffeine can induce hypokalemia, which affects the neuromuscular system and can lead to paralysis.A 24-year-old woman, gravida 3, para 2-0-0-2 at 33 weeks' gestation presented with muscular paralysis and hypokalemia secondary to drinking 6 to 7 L of cola per day with little other oral intake.
C C, Appel, T D, Myles
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Hypokalemic paralysis in leptospirosis.

The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, 2012
We report a case of flaccid weakness in a 40 year old male farmer who presented to us with fever and bodyache. The patient had leptospirosis with a non- oliguric renal failure and flaccid weakness secondary to hypokalemia which improved following potassium correction and conservative measures.
P, Baburaj, Shyam Shankar, Varma, B L, Harikrishnan   +2 more
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Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis

Archives of Neurology, 1979
To the Editor.— Hypokalemic periodic paralysis has been treated in many ways, such as by the use of potassium supplements and spironolactone to increase the patient's level of potassium 1 and most recently by the use of acetazolamide. 2 This last method is thought not to alter potassium metabolism 3 but rather to work through the creation of metabolic
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Hypokalemic Familial Periodic Paralysis

Anesthesiology, 1983
B, Melnick, J L, Chang, C E, Larson, R C, Bedger   +3 more
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Dengue-associated hypokalemic paralysis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2014
Beuy, Joob, Viroj, Wiwanitkit
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