hypokalemic

As the residents hashed out the case, Dr. Jeremy Schwartz, one of the chief residents, thought of hypokalemic from the Latin, meaning low potassium periodic paralysis, a genetic disease that causes a transient paralysis similar to what the patient had.

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He tells me that he once saw a documentary about a boy with a genetic condition called hypokalemic periodic paralysis and used Google to find a connection with that illness and hyperthyroidism.

NYT > Home Page M.D. By LISA SANDERS 2011

He tells me that he once saw a documentary about a boy with a genetic condition called hypokalemic periodic paralysis and used Google to find a connection with that illness and hyperthyroidism.

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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.

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Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.

Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.

Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

Cardiovascular side effects have included fluid retention, sodium retention, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, hypokalemic alkalosis the most common metabolic abnormality resulting from vomiting and fluid loss.

Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Everything You Wish You Didn't Need to Know Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

Alexia also suffers, as have other members of her family, from a rare form of a rare disease: hypokalemic periodic paralysis.

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There are two main varieties of periodic paralysis: hypokalemic periodic paralysis, where attacks are characterized by low potassium and which are improved by potassium administration, and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, where attacks are caused by potassium administration.

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In the inherited version of hypokalemic periodic paralysis, young men mostly are born with cells that have a tendency to suck up potassium under the right circumstances.

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