A young man with recurrent paralysis. Issue 6 (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chavez, Magdalena; Williams, Jeffrey
• Is Part Of: JAAPA. Volume 30:Issue 6(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: paralysis -- refractory hypokalemia -- hypomagnesemia -- Gitelman syndrome -- Bartter syndrome -- renal loss; Medicine -- Periodicals; Physicians' assistants -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Physician Assistants -- Periodicals; Medicine; Physicians' assistants; Periodicals; 610.7372069
• DOI: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000512238.69173.ce
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0893-7400

Abstract

Abstract : ABSTRACT: Hypokalemia can cause reactions from mild muscular cramping to life-threatening paralysis and cardiac dysrhythmias. This article describes a patient whose unusual, recurrent muscular symptoms and electrolyte abnormalities were eventually identified as Gitelman syndrome, a rare genetic disorder resulting in severe refractory hypokalemia.