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Familial Periodic Paralysis

Known as: Periodic Paralyses, Familial, paralysis periodic, PERIODIC PARALYSIS 
A heterogenous group of inherited disorders characterized by recurring attacks of rapidly progressive flaccid paralysis or myotonia. These conditions… 
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Narrower (3)

Hypokalemic periodic paralysisIsaacs syndromeNormokalemic Periodic Paralysis
In BloodMicrobiologicalchemically inducednursing therapy

Broader (4)

MyopathyNeuromuscular DiseasesPeripheral Neuropathyadynamia

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2007
2007
Design of a Specific Activator for Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channels Uncovers Channel Architecture*
Gating modifiers of voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are important tools in neuroscience research and may have therapeutic… 
2006
2006
Gating defects of a novel Na+ channel mutant causing hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
2002
2002
Mutations linked to familial hypokalaemic periodic paralysis in the calcium channel α1 subunit gene (Cav1·1) are not associated with thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
objective To investigate whether patients with thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis (THPP) have the same molecular defect… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Sjögren's syndrome presenting as hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
We describe a 21-year-old Hispanic woman who presented with hypokalemic paralysis as the initial manifestation of Sjögren's… 
1991
1991
Confirmation of linkage of hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis to chromosome 17.
Linkage studies were performed in six European families with hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis (PPII) with myotonia, an autosomal… 
1991
1991
Successful anesthetic management of a patient with hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis undergoing cardiac surgery.
Hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis is a rare disease, with obvious anesthetic implications. We report a case of a patient… 
1972
1972
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis with arrhythmia.
IN 1963, Klein and his co-workers1 described a variant of periodic paralysis in which intermittent attacks of muscular paralysis… 
1965
1965
Mechanism of Muscular Paralysis by Insulin with Particular Reference to Familial Periodic Paralysis
OFFERIJNS et al.1 have shown that insulin exerts a paralysing effect on the isolated diaphragm, of rats fed on a potassium-free… 
1959
1959
Hyperkalemic familial periodic paralysis.
The clinical histories of three families are described, who have a variant of familial periodic paralysis characterized by high… 
1954
1954
Familial periodic paralysis, myotonia, progressive amyotrophy, and pes cavus in members of a single family.
THE ABUNDANT literature concerning "familial periodic paralysis" brings together a remarkable number of clinical phenomena in… 
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