Hyperkalemia: A rare cause of acute flaccid quadriparesis

Acute flaccid quadriparesis secondary to hyperkalemia is a very rare and serious but reversible medical emergency. We present a case of a 73-year-old female who was admitted with rapidly progressive ascending paraparesis progressing to quadriparesis in about 10 h due to hyperkalemia. Patient was tre...

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Autores principales: Garg, Suneel Kumar, Saxena, Sanjay, Juneja, Deven, Singh, Omender, Kumar, Mukesh, Mukherji, Joy Dev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3912670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24550615
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.125439
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author Garg, Suneel Kumar
Saxena, Sanjay
Juneja, Deven
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Kumar, Mukesh
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description Acute flaccid quadriparesis secondary to hyperkalemia is a very rare and serious but reversible medical emergency. We present a case of a 73-year-old female who was admitted with rapidly progressive ascending paraparesis progressing to quadriparesis in about 10 h due to hyperkalemia. Patient was treated with antihyperkalemic measures. Her power improved dramatically as potassium levels normalized and she had an uneventful recovery.
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spelling pubmed-39126702014-02-18 Hyperkalemia: A rare cause of acute flaccid quadriparesis Garg, Suneel Kumar Saxena, Sanjay Juneja, Deven Singh, Omender Kumar, Mukesh Mukherji, Joy Dev Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Acute flaccid quadriparesis secondary to hyperkalemia is a very rare and serious but reversible medical emergency. We present a case of a 73-year-old female who was admitted with rapidly progressive ascending paraparesis progressing to quadriparesis in about 10 h due to hyperkalemia. Patient was treated with antihyperkalemic measures. Her power improved dramatically as potassium levels normalized and she had an uneventful recovery. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3912670/ /pubmed/24550615 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.125439 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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_full Hyperkalemia: A rare cause of acute flaccid quadriparesis
title_fullStr Hyperkalemia: A rare cause of acute flaccid quadriparesis
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