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Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis aggravated by voltage - gate sodium channel blocker antiepileptic drug?
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jun 2020
Zukić S, Sinanović O, Alečković-Halilović M, Hodžić R, Kovačević L, Hodžić S
Abstract excerpt
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (hyperkalemic PP) is a rare muscle disease that has onset in infancy or early childhood and is manifested by transient episodes of paralysis. In this case we presented a young male adult with attacks of weakness, after commencement of the antiepileptic drug - Carbamazepine. We hypothesize that Carbamazepine, as voltage-gate sodium channel blocker, aggravated the symptoms of...
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