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| Year : 2008 | Volume
: 12
| Issue : 1 | Page : 39--41 |
A case of acute paraplegia that improved with dialysis
Govarthanan Rajendiran, Rajamahesh Jayabalan, Saravanan Chandrahasan, Ashwin Kumar Mani
Intensive Care Unit, Apollo First Med Hospitals, Chennai, India
Correspondence Address:
Govarthanan Rajendiran
43 (Old No. 4/A3), Rama Bajana Koil Street, Poonthottam, Velapadi, Vellore - 632 001, Tamil Nadu
India
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.40950 PMID: 19826591
Acute severe hyperkalemia can present as acute paraplegia independent of cardiac effects, even though cardiac muscle is more sensitive to serum potassium changes. We managed a patient with acute hyperkalemic paralysis who did not have threatening cardiac/electrocardiographic manifestations. The limb weakness became normal after hemodialysis.
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