Dengue infection presenting as acute hypokalemic quadriparesis

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 327-328

  Gupta, N ^a   Garg, A ^a   Chhabra, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Dengue; hypokalemia; quadriparesis

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HYPOKALEMIC QUADRIPARESIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DENGUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INDIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; PERIODIC PARALYSIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RIGOR; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DENGUE VIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 84907021514     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.138824     Document Type: Article

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