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- Title
Primary Sjo¨gren’s Syndrome Presenting as Hypokalaemic Periodic Paralysis and Respiratory Arrest.
- Authors
Fujimoto, T.; Shiiki, H.; Takahi, Y.; Dohi, K.
- Abstract
: We report a case of hypokalaemic, flaccid quadriparesis with sudden respiratory arrest in a 27-year-old Japanese woman in whom the discovery of distal renal tubular acidosis led to the diagnosis of primary Sjo¨gren’s syndrome (SS). Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis as the initial manifestation of primary SS is rare, but when it occurs it may precede symptoms of xerostomia and xerophthalmia. The diagnosis of primary SS should be considered in premenopausal women who present with rapidly progressive weakness and hypokalaemia, with or without the sicca complex.
- Subjects
POTASSIUM deficiency diseases; RESPIRATORY diseases in women; DISEASES in women; RESPIRATORY diseases; ACIDOSIS; SYMPTOMS; PARALYSIS
- Publication
Clinical Rheumatology, 2001, Vol 20, Issue 5, p365
- ISSN
0770-3198
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s100670170028