%0 Journal Article
%T Par¨¢lisis peri¨®dica hiperpotas¨¦mica
%A Pozo Alonso
%A Albia
%A Pozo Lauz¨¢n
%A Desiderio
%A Hern¨¢ndez Rodr¨ªguez
%A H¨¦ctor
%A Hern¨¢ndez Meil¨¢n
%A Manuel
%A Say¨² Stewart
%A Jos¨¦ Manuel
%J Revista Cubana de Pediatr£¿-a
%D 2011
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X the periodic hyperpotassemia paralysis is a striated muscle channelopathy characterized by recurrent episodes of muscular asthenia that may to be triggered by exercise, cold, not rest after exercise and potassium support. this the case of a female patient aged 13 diagnosed with hyperpotassemia periodic paralysis without family backgrounds of this entity and also without associated myotonia. the seizures of muscular asthenia occurred almost daily and each 2 or 3 days with a variable length from a half hour to 24 to 48 hours. during a episode of muscular asthenia there were blood potassium concentrations of 7,14 mmol/l and the electromyogram showed a myopathic pattern. there was a frequency decrease of episodes of muscular asthenia at 2 months of treatment onset with oral acetazolamide.
%K muscular channelopathy
%K recurrent muscular asthenia
%K hyperpotassemia periodic paralysis.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-75312011000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en