Review Article
[Retracted] Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis: Clinical Challenges
Table 2
Differential diagnosis of hypokalemic paralysis.
| Type of potassium Imbalance |
Cause |
| Transcellular shift | Drugs (tocolytics, theophylline toxicity, chloroquine | toxicity, insulin overdose) | Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis | Familial periodic paralysis | Sporadic periodic paralysis | Barium poisoning |
| Renal loss of potassium | Drugs: diuretics | Primary hyperaldosteronism | Pseudohyperaldosteronism: licorice ingestion | Bartter’s syndrome, Gitelman’s syndrome | Renal tubular acidosis | Other: nephrotic syndrome, acute tubular necrosis, diabetic ketoacidosis, and ureterosigmoidostomy. |
| Gastrointestinal loss of potassium | Celiac disease | Tropical sprue | Infectious diarrhea: Salmonella enteritis, Strongyloides enteritis, and Yersinia enterocolitis | Short bowel syndrome |
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