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 ...

Disorders which may lead to hypokalemia like Gitelman syndrome, Bartter syndrome, Andersen-Tawil syndrome, renal tubular acidosis or periodic hypokalemic paralysis were excluded by the negative ...

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 ...