When acetazolamide, an agent used to treat hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, was inadvertently found to relieve a patient with the hypokalemic variety, he and another patient were observed to ...

Since the discovery that the paroxysmal muscle disorder periodic paralysis is caused by mutations in genes that encode voltage-gated ion channels, many genetic neurological channelopathies have ...

5–20 An unusual case of hypokalemic myopathy with myoglobinuria ... unremarkable except for increased variability of size. A periodic acidSchiff (PAS) stain revealed the usual checkerboard ...