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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease hypokalemia
Phenotype C0020550|hyperthyroidism
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PubMedID- 24315080 Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an uncommon complication of thyrotoxicosis, characterized by attacks of generalized muscular weakness associated with hypokalemia in patients with hyperthyroidism, most frequently with graves-basedow disease.
PubMedID- 22470856 Occasionally, hyperthyroidism is associated with hypokalemia (thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis of channelopathies) due to genetic mutation in either l-type calcium channel α1-subunit or potassium inward rectifier 2.6.

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