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Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome
There is a well-established association of Sjogren's syndrome with renal tubular acidosis (RTA). Rarely there is a retrospective diagnosis where the patient presents with RTA and the workup reveals Sjogren's syndrome. Our case report is about a patient who presented with generalized weakne...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30345187 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3128 |
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author | Shahbaz, Amir Shahid, Muhammad Faizan Saleem, Hafiz M. Kashif Malik, Zohra R Sachmechi, Issac |
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description | There is a well-established association of Sjogren's syndrome with renal tubular acidosis (RTA). Rarely there is a retrospective diagnosis where the patient presents with RTA and the workup reveals Sjogren's syndrome. Our case report is about a patient who presented with generalized weakness and hypokalemia, which upon further workup turned out to be RTA. Various tests were performed to find out the cause of RTA. A favorable profile for the anti-nuclear antibody, anti-Ro/SSA, and anti-La/SSB was consistent with Sjogren's syndrome. Treatment with corticosteroid improved hypokalemia. The patient did not have typical glandular symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome, and follow-up is needed to see whether the patient develops symptoms in the future and to prevent any possible complication. |
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spelling | pubmed-61812512018-10-19 Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome Shahbaz, Amir Shahid, Muhammad Faizan Saleem, Hafiz M. Kashif Malik, Zohra R Sachmechi, Issac Cureus Internal Medicine There is a well-established association of Sjogren's syndrome with renal tubular acidosis (RTA). Rarely there is a retrospective diagnosis where the patient presents with RTA and the workup reveals Sjogren's syndrome. Our case report is about a patient who presented with generalized weakness and hypokalemia, which upon further workup turned out to be RTA. Various tests were performed to find out the cause of RTA. A favorable profile for the anti-nuclear antibody, anti-Ro/SSA, and anti-La/SSB was consistent with Sjogren's syndrome. Treatment with corticosteroid improved hypokalemia. The patient did not have typical glandular symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome, and follow-up is needed to see whether the patient develops symptoms in the future and to prevent any possible complication. Cureus 2018-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6181251/ /pubmed/30345187 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3128 Text en Copyright © 2018, Shahbaz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Shahbaz, Amir Shahid, Muhammad Faizan Saleem, Hafiz M. Kashif Malik, Zohra R Sachmechi, Issac Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title | Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title_full | Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title_fullStr | Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title_full_unstemmed | Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title_short | Hypokalemic Paralysis Secondary to Renal Tubular Acidosis Revealing Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome |
title_sort | hypokalemic paralysis secondary to renal tubular acidosis revealing underlying sjogren's syndrome |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30345187 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3128 |
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