Acetazolamide-induced muscle weakness in hypokalemic periodic paralysis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 743-745

  Ikeda, Ken ^a,b   Iwasaki, Yasuo ^b   Kinoshita, Masao ^b   Yabuki, Daisuke ^b   Igarashi, Osamu ^b   Ichikawa, Yasumitsu ^b   Satoyoshi, Eijiro ^b  

^a PL Tokyo Health Care Center   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterialvenous differences of potassium and glucose; Diabetes mellitus; Hyperinsulinemia; Triamterene

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CHLORIDE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; POTASSIUM; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRIAMTERENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOREARM; GRIP STRENGTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0036744597     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.743     Document Type: Article

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