Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report

BACKGROUND: Severe hypokalemia is known to cause muscle paralysis, and renal tubular acidosis is a recognized cause. Cystic disease of the kidney is associated with severe hypokalemia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 33-year-old male patient who presented with generalized limb weakness caused by seve...

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Autores principales: Gamakaranage, Champika SSSK, Rodrigo, Chaturaka, Jayasinghe, Saroj, Rajapakse, Senaka
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21501478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-12-16
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author Gamakaranage, Champika SSSK
Rodrigo, Chaturaka
Jayasinghe, Saroj
Rajapakse, Senaka
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Rodrigo, Chaturaka
Jayasinghe, Saroj
Rajapakse, Senaka
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description BACKGROUND: Severe hypokalemia is known to cause muscle paralysis, and renal tubular acidosis is a recognized cause. Cystic disease of the kidney is associated with severe hypokalemia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 33-year-old male patient who presented with generalized limb weakness caused by severe hypokalemia due to renal tubular acidosis, who was found to have renal medullary cysts. CONCLUSION: The association of cystic renal disease with hypokalemia, and the possible pathophysiological basis of the development of renal cysts in patients with severe hypokalemia, are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30955472011-05-17 Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report Gamakaranage, Champika SSSK Rodrigo, Chaturaka Jayasinghe, Saroj Rajapakse, Senaka BMC Nephrol Case Report BACKGROUND: Severe hypokalemia is known to cause muscle paralysis, and renal tubular acidosis is a recognized cause. Cystic disease of the kidney is associated with severe hypokalemia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 33-year-old male patient who presented with generalized limb weakness caused by severe hypokalemia due to renal tubular acidosis, who was found to have renal medullary cysts. CONCLUSION: The association of cystic renal disease with hypokalemia, and the possible pathophysiological basis of the development of renal cysts in patients with severe hypokalemia, are discussed. BioMed Central 2011-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3095547/ /pubmed/21501478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-12-16 Text en Copyright ©2011 Gamakaranage et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gamakaranage, Champika SSSK
Rodrigo, Chaturaka
Jayasinghe, Saroj
Rajapakse, Senaka
Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title_full Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title_fullStr Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title_full_unstemmed Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title_short Hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
title_sort hypokalemic paralysis associated with cystic disease of the kidney: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21501478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-12-16
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