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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care

Sporadic hypothyroidism-related hypokalemic paralysis: Diagnosis in a resource-poor setting.

Nadasha Kadeeja, Nivetha Senthilnathan, Stalin Viswanathan, Rajeswari Aghoram

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nadasha KadeejaDepartment of General Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India.
Nivetha SenthilnathanDepartment of General Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India.
Stalin ViswanathanDepartment of General Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India.
Rajeswari AghoramDepartment of Neurology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.
Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute · INJawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypothyroidism and distal renal tubular acidosis causing hypokalemic paralysis (HP) have been described only in four female patients. HP as the initial manifestation of uncomplicated diabetes has been reported only in three young males. We report two middle-aged patients presenting with gradual-onset areflexic quadriparesis and neck flop, associated with urinary potassium losses, and recovering over 3 days. The male patient with alcohol abuse had urine pH >5.5 and hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis due to renal tubular acidosis and hypothyroidism. The second, a hypertensive female, had metabolic alkalosis, hypomagnesemia, and diabetes mellitus diagnosed at admission. Both these patients improved with intravenous and oral potassium supplementation.

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Diabetes mellitushypokalemic paralysishypothyroidismrenal tubular acidosis

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PMID29564279
PMCPMC5848414
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