Concept information
Preferred term
Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
Type
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Definition
- An autosomal dominant familial disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of skeletal muscle weakness associated with falls in serum potassium levels. The condition usually presents in the first or second decade of life with attacks of trunk and leg paresis during sleep or shortly after awakening. Symptoms may persist for hours to days and generally are precipitated by exercise or a meal high in carbohydrates. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1483)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Familial Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
- HOKPP
- Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis, Familial
- HYPOKPP
- HYPOPP
- Paralysis, Hypokalemic Periodic
- Periodic Paralysis- Hypokalemic
- Primary Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
- Westphall Disease
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Maladie de Westphal
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Maladie de Westphall
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Paralysie périodique hypokaliémique de Westphal
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Paralysie périodique primitive hypokaliémique de Westphal
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-F3JPD786-W
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