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Year : 2014  |  Volume : 60  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 420

Quadriparesis and hypokalemia in dengue


Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, India

Date of Web Publication5-Nov-2014

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Dr. A Ray
Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi
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DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.143998

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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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Koshy JM, Joseph DM, John M, Mani A, Malhotra N, Abraham GM, et al. Spectrum of neurological manifestations in dengue virus infection in Northwest India. Trop Doct 2012;42:191-4.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
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Verma SP, Himanshu D, Tripathi AK, Vaish AK, Jain N. An atypical case of dengue haemorrhagic fever presenting as quadriparesis due to compressive myelopathy. BMJ Case Rep 2011;2011.pii:bcr1020103421.  Back to cited text no. 6
    
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