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SUBMITTER: Quaresma F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5612511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMJ case reports 20170810
A 48-year-old man with a 4 months history of asthenia, anorexia, 10 kg weight loss and 1 month of hematuria and dysuria was admitted to another hospital for sudden muscular weakness. He was found to have areflexic tetraparesis and was referred to our hospital.On admission, he was bradycardic, tachypneic, with flaccid tetraplegia. Laboratory results showed metabolic acidemia, severe hyperkalemia and hyponatremia, acute renal dysfunction and sterile pyuria. After hyperkalemia correction, the neuro ...[more]