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Normokalemic periodic paralysis revisited: does it exist?
Annals of neurology - 1 Aug 2002
Chinnery Patrick F, Walls Timothy J, Hanna Michael G, Bates David, Fawcett Peter R W
Abstract excerpt
Normokalemic periodic paralysis (normoKPP) is well established in the literature, but there are doubts as to whether it exists as a discrete entity. Retrospective clinical and molecular analysis has confirmed suspicions that most normoKPP families actually have a variant of hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (hyperKPP) due to a mutation of the muscle-specific sodium channel gene (SCN4A). However, the original...
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