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Hypokalemic periodic paralysis

Known as: Primary Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis, hypokalemic paralysis periodic, Familial Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis 
An autosomal dominant familial disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of skeletal muscle weakness associated with falls in serum potassium… 
National Institutes of Health

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Familial Periodic Paralysis
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysisIn BloodKCNE3 geneMicrobiological

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1996
1996
Aphasic status epilepticus in multiple sclerosis.
Aphasia due to simple partial status epilepticus is rare. We report a case of prolonged mixed aphasia without clouding of… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Skeletal muscle DHP receptor mutations alter calcium currents in human hypokalaemic periodic paralysis myotubes.
1. Mutations in the gene encoding the alpha 1‐subunit of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine (DHP) receptor are responsible for… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Adynamia episodica hereditaria: What causes the weakness?
The cause of weakness was investigated in a patient with adynamia episodica hereditaria without myotonia. A pattern of exercise… 
1980
1980
Recurrent urinary calculi associated with toluene sniffing.
1979
1979
Cardiac dysfunction in a patient with familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
A 19-year-old white man with familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis developed evidence of cardiac dysfunction during a episode… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
CONGENITAL LARYNGEAL-ABDUCTOR PARALYSIS DUE TO NUCLEUS AMBIGUUS DYSGENESIS IN THREE BROTHERS.
CHEVALIER Jackson,1 in 1937, made the following comment: "Untold thousands of infants have asphyxiated because of bilateral… 
Highly Cited
1944
Highly Cited
1944
MUSCULAR PARALYSIS AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITIES: RESULTING FROM POTASSIUM LOSS IN CHRONIC NEPHRITIS
During the past two years 2 patients suffering from chronic nephritis have had several admissions to the wards of the… 
Review
1941
Review
1941
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC STUDIES IN A CASE OF PERIODIC PARALYSIS
Study of this rare disease has recently been stimulated by the discovery that the recurrent attacks of flaccid paralysis which… 
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