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Cardiac arrhythmias in hypokalemic periodic paralysis: Hypokalemia as only cause?
Muscle & nerve - 1 Sept 2014
Stunnenberg Bas C, Deinum Jaap, Links Thera P, Wilde Arthur A, Franssen Hessel, Drost Gea
Abstract excerpt
It is unknown how often cardiac arrhythmias occur in hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoPP) and if they are caused by hypokalemia alone or other factors. This systematic review shows that cardiac arrhythmias were reported in 27 HypoPP patients. Cases were confirmed genetically (13 with an R528H mutation in CACNA1S, 1 an R669H mutation in SCN4A) or had a convincing clinical diagnosis of HypoPP (13 genetically...
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