Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome

We report a 58-year-old woman who presented with acute quadriparesis, bulbar weakness, atrial fibrillation, ventricular ectopics, and distal renal tubular acidosis with severe hypokalemia. She recovered completely on potassium and alkali supplementation. The patient also had hypergammaglobulinemia w...

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Autores principales: Palkar, A. V., Pillai, S., Rajadhyaksha, G. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886980
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.83730
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description We report a 58-year-old woman who presented with acute quadriparesis, bulbar weakness, atrial fibrillation, ventricular ectopics, and distal renal tubular acidosis with severe hypokalemia. She recovered completely on potassium and alkali supplementation. The patient also had hypergammaglobulinemia with probable primary Sjogren syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-31614382011-09-01 Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome Palkar, A. V. Pillai, S. Rajadhyaksha, G. C. Indian J Nephrol Case Report We report a 58-year-old woman who presented with acute quadriparesis, bulbar weakness, atrial fibrillation, ventricular ectopics, and distal renal tubular acidosis with severe hypokalemia. She recovered completely on potassium and alkali supplementation. The patient also had hypergammaglobulinemia with probable primary Sjogren syndrome. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3161438/ /pubmed/21886980 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.83730 Text en © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome
title_full Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome
title_fullStr Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome
title_short Hypokalemic quadriparesis in Sjogren syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886980
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