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Severe hyperkalemia caused a sine-wave pattern arrhythmia and sudden limb paralysis in a 54-year-old man with end-stage renal disease.
Severe hyperkalemia can present with sudden paralysis and sine-wave pattern arrhythmia.
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Alerts clinicians to hyperkalemia in ESRD with paralysis; single case leaves generalizability open.
A 54-year-old man with a history of end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis presented to the emergency department because of a sudden inability to move his limbs.
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Pluijmen et al. (2007) studied this question. Severe hyperkalemia caused a sine-wave pattern arrhythmia and sudden limb paralysis in a 54-year-old man with end-stage renal disease.
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