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Hypokalaemic paralysis in an adult case of Plasmodium vivax malaria

Hypokalaemia and its subsequent complications are more often seen in children rather than in adults and are more common with falciparum malaria. This is a case of a 26-year-old male with Plasmodium vivax malaria who had developed paraparesis secondary to hypokalaemia. His treatment involved correcti...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Sagar, Mukherji, Ananya, Chandrakar, Santwana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23530968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-111