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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Hypokalaemia with paralysis: don’t forget the thyroid
  1. Concetta Catalano1,
  2. Graziella Caridi1,
  3. Maria Concetta Postorino1,
  4. Giuseppe Enia2
  1. 1Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Reggio Calabria, Italy
  2. 2Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation Unit, CNR-IBIM, Reggio Calabria, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Giuseppe Enia, enia1951{at}gmail.com

Summary

The authors report the case of a 33-year-old Italian man who had three episodes of hypokalaemia with paralysis linked to hyperthyroidism. Because of its low prevalence in western populations, the diagnosis of thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis can be easily missed in non-Asian countries.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3721

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