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Chronic active hepatitis and renal tubular acidosis present as periodic hypokalemic paralysis causing pediatric respiratory failure.
Highlights a rare presentation of periodic hypokalemic paralysis with respiratory failure in a child with chronic active hepatitis and renal tubular acidosis.
A child with chronic active hepatitis and renal tubular acidosis, presenting with periodic hypokalemic paralysis resulting in respiratory failure, is described.
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Koul et al. (1992) studied this question. Chronic active hepatitis and renal tubular acidosis presented as periodic hypokalemic paralysis resulting in respiratory failure in a pediatric patient.
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