A case of acute onset quadriplegia: A lesson for physicians

A 38-year-old female patient presented with acute onset quadriplegia which was initially diagnosed as Guillain-Barre syndrome. ECG features were suggestive of hypokalemia. Blood investigations revealed severe hypokalemia. After replacement of potassium, patient's muscle power recovered within 2...

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Autores principales: Sahu, Indira, Kumar, Mukesh, Ruhela, Manish, Ola, Rakesh K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33409220
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_924_20
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description A 38-year-old female patient presented with acute onset quadriplegia which was initially diagnosed as Guillain-Barre syndrome. ECG features were suggestive of hypokalemia. Blood investigations revealed severe hypokalemia. After replacement of potassium, patient's muscle power recovered within 20 h. Thus, if the patient presented with acute onset quadriplegia possibility of hypokalemia-induced paralysis should always be kept in mind.
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spelling pubmed-77730552021-01-05 A case of acute onset quadriplegia: A lesson for physicians Sahu, Indira Kumar, Mukesh Ruhela, Manish Ola, Rakesh K. J Family Med Prim Care Case Report A 38-year-old female patient presented with acute onset quadriplegia which was initially diagnosed as Guillain-Barre syndrome. ECG features were suggestive of hypokalemia. Blood investigations revealed severe hypokalemia. After replacement of potassium, patient's muscle power recovered within 20 h. Thus, if the patient presented with acute onset quadriplegia possibility of hypokalemia-induced paralysis should always be kept in mind. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7773055/ /pubmed/33409220 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_924_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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