Key result
Radioactive ablation and short-term beta blockers successfully treat one case of thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the occurrence and successful treatment of thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis in a white man, a condition typically seen in Asian men.
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Alerts clinicians to thyrotoxic periodic paralysis in white patients with paralysis; extends sparse case data but leaves generalizability open.
W A Woolery (1991) conducted a case report in Thyrotoxic Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis (n=1). Radioactive ablation and short-term beta blocker was evaluated on Symptom resolution. Radioactive ablation and short-term beta blocker therapy successfully treated thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis in a white man, who remained asymptomatic for 12 months.
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