Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature

In rare cases, patients with Gitelman syndrome may present with hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome. The severity of resultant symptoms may be life‐threatening. Controversial drugs such as aldactone, amiloride, and eplerenone should be used in this situation despite the lack of s...

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Autores principales: Elkoundi, Abdelghafour, Kartite, Noureddine, Bensghir, Mustapha, Doghmi, Nawfal, Lalaoui, Salim Jaafar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1122
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author Elkoundi, Abdelghafour
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Doghmi, Nawfal
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description In rare cases, patients with Gitelman syndrome may present with hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome. The severity of resultant symptoms may be life‐threatening. Controversial drugs such as aldactone, amiloride, and eplerenone should be used in this situation despite the lack of safety data.
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spelling pubmed-56282402017-10-12 Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature Elkoundi, Abdelghafour Kartite, Noureddine Bensghir, Mustapha Doghmi, Nawfal Lalaoui, Salim Jaafar Clin Case Rep Case Reports In rare cases, patients with Gitelman syndrome may present with hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome. The severity of resultant symptoms may be life‐threatening. Controversial drugs such as aldactone, amiloride, and eplerenone should be used in this situation despite the lack of safety data. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5628240/ /pubmed/29026553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1122 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elkoundi, Abdelghafour
Kartite, Noureddine
Bensghir, Mustapha
Doghmi, Nawfal
Lalaoui, Salim Jaafar
Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title_full Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title_fullStr Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title_short Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
title_sort gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking guillain–barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026553
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1122
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