PMID: 7029500May 1, 1981Paper

Periodic paralysis complicating malaria

Postgraduate Medical Journal
N Senanayake, S J Wimalawansa

Abstract

Episodic muscular weakness, commonly associated with alterations of serum potassium, is the cardinal feature of periodic paralysis. The combination of transient hyperkalaemia and rigors occurring during febrile episodes of malaria is suggested as the underlying cause which precipitated the muscular paralysis. Three patients with malaria who developed a similar paralysis during the paroxysms of fever are described to illustrate this.

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May 16, 1987·British Medical Journal·N Senanayake
May 1, 1992·Postgraduate Medical Journal·A Wijesundere
Mar 28, 2013·Malaria Journal·Sagar SinhaSantwana Chandrakar
Mar 1, 1992·Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria·G C Román, N Senanayake

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