Hypokalemic paralysis associated with renal tubular acidosis

Crit Care Med. 1987 Nov;15(11):1067-8. doi: 10.1097/00003246-198711000-00017.

Abstract

Patients with renal tubular acidosis may show hypokalemic paralysis. We report a case in which the symptoms of hypokalemia and the onset of paralysis were initially mistaken for the Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acidosis, Renal Tubular / complications*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypokalemia / diagnosis
  • Hypokalemia / etiology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Paralysis / diagnosis
  • Paralysis / etiology*
  • Polyradiculoneuropathy / diagnosis