A new diagnostic test for an old diagnostic challenge: Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3053-3054

  Lien, Yeong Hau H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelopathies; Familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis; Hypercalciuria; Hyperinsulinemia; Hypophosphatemia; Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CREATININE; INSULIN; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL;

CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCIURIA; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PERIODIC PARALYSIS; PHOSPHATE URINE LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THYROTOXIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALCIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; HYPERCALCIURIA; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; PHOSPHATES; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 33751330393     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000242917.40806.5E     Document Type: Editorial

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