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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 420 |
Quadriparesis and hypokalemia in dengue
A Ray, R Sharma, A Khanna
Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, India
| Date of Web Publication | 5-Nov-2014 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. A Ray
Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.143998
How to cite this article:
Ray A, Sharma R, Khanna A. Quadriparesis and hypokalemia in dengue. J Postgrad Med 2014;60:420 |
Sir,
We read with interest the article "Dengue infection presenting as acute hypokalemic quadriparesis" by Gupta et al.[1] and would like to make the following observations. As mentioned by the authors quadriparesis can occur rarely in dengue patients and the reported causes include acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, [2] acute transverse myelitis [3] and compressive myelopathy, [4] acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, [5] acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy, [6] acute motor axonal neuropathy, [7] hypokalemic paralysis, [8],[9] neuralgic amyotrophy [10] and myostis. [11] The genesis of hypokalemia could also result from a host of causes that include redistribution of potassium into cells either due to increased catecholamine release and/or due to secondary insulin resistance, transient renal tubular abnormalities leading to increased urinary potassium wasting, increased potassium consumption due to rapid cell growth, potassium loss due to vomiting and diarrhea [11] and hyperreninemia due to hypovolemia. [12]
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