Concurrence of thyrotoxicosis and Gitelman's syndrome-associated hypokalemia-induced periodic paralysis

• Main Authors: Shinsaku Imashuku (Author), Tomoko Teramura-Ikeda (Author), Naoko Kudo (Author), Shigehiro Kaneda (Author), Toshihiro Tajima (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A 16-year-old Japanese boy with a history of truancy had been treated at a psychiatric clinic. When the patient was referred to us for hypokalemia-associated paralysis, the diagnosis of thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis was made, common in Asian men. Subsequently, the patient was found to ha...