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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(4):1098-1101; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn011
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Periodic paralyses: when channels go wrong

Jean-Philippe Lengelé, Hendrica Belge and Olivier Devuyst

Division of Nephrology, Université catholique de Louvain Medical School, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium

Olivier Devuyst, Division of Nephrology, Université catholique de Louvain, 10 Avenue Hippocrate, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. Tel: +32-2-764-54-53; Fax: +32-2-764-54-55; E-mail: olivier.devuyst@uclouvain.be

Keywords: channel; hyperkalaemia; hypokalaemia; transcellular shift

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In 1865, Claude Bernard wrote that ‘the constancy of the internal milieu is the essential condition to a free and independent life’ [1]. It would be hard to find a more illustrative paradigm for that statement than for the case of hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis (HyperPP) reported by Grgic et al. in this issue [2]. A 14-year-old male was admitted for a sudden ascending paralysis involving the four limbs that appeared shortly after exercise. The symptoms were associated with a severe hyperkalaemia (6.3 mmol/L). Remarkably, both the muscle strength and the K+ level normalized spontaneously within 2 h. Since the patient had presented similar episodes since childhood, a clinical diagnosis of HyperPP was made, later confirmed by provocation with exercise and oral K+ intake. Genetic analysis detected a known mutation (T704M) in the SCN4A gene that encodes the {alpha} subunit of the Nav1.4 voltage-gated sodium channel. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



   Potassium homeostasis
 


   Hyperkalaemia and K+ redistribution
 


   The periodic paralyses, paradigm for muscle channelopathies
 


   From mutations to disease
 


   Conclusion
 

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