Post-operative hyperkalaemic paralysis.
Year: 2003
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Tetraparesis is more often a clinical feature of profound hypokalaemia 1, 2 than hyperkalaemia. Neurological features of hyperkalaemia are rarely seen in clinical practice, as they are precluded by cardiotoxic complications such as arrhythmias. However, patients may develop flaccid paralysis of skeletal muscle with areflexia mimicking symptoms of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.3 Severe hyperkalaemic paralysis has previously been reported secondary to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs 4 spironolactone,5 and a combination of chronic renal failure and ACE inhibitors.6 We report a case of post-operative secondary hyperkalaemic paralysis presenting with neurological symptoms
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: G C Beattie, G V McDonnell, A J Wilkinson, R J Maxwell
Institution: Ulster Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Nephrology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W61719870