ea0011p93 | Clinical case reports | ECE2006
Forrest LV
, Platts JK
Clinical case: A 21 year-old Caucasian kitchen porter presented with an episode of acute severe muscle weakness. He was receiving treatment for GravesÂ’ disease which had been diagnosed two months previously. He was fully alert, normotensive, tachycardic, with a flaccid quadriparesis, diminished reflexes and flexor plantars. Sensation was not impaired and his muscles were diffusely tender on palpation. Blood tests revealed hypokalaemia (K+1.9 mmol/l), hypomagnes...