Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on hypokalaemic periodic paralysis: clinical features: Genetic types Type 1: with CACNA1AS mutations: this accounts for 70% of cases Type 2: with SCN4A mutation MCM3AP mutation has also been reported Genetics transmission Prodrome Clinical features Differential…

Genetic types

  • Type 1: with CACNA1AS mutations: this accounts for 70% of cases
  • Type 2: with SCN4A mutation
  • MCM3AP mutation has also been reported

Genetics transmission

Prodrome

Clinical features

Differential diagnosis

References

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  4. Gustavsson EK, Follett J, Farrer MJ, Aasly JO. Family with primary periodic paralysis and a mutation in MCM3AP, a gene implicated in mRNA transport. Muscle Nerve 2019; 60:311-314.
  5. Oishi T, Pagano J, Sellers C, Jerath NU. Two cases of periodic paralysis associated with MCM3AP variants. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis 2023; 25:36-41.
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