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A 21-year-old white man comes to the emergency department because of muscular weakness. He has had episodes of weakness for the past year. After coming home from the gym, he feels the inability to reach the cabinets in the kitchen. Sometimes he is unable to rise from a seated position. The attacks occur approximately 3 times per week, last 3 hours, and subside spontaneously. The attacks also occur after heavy meals. On physical examination, you note 2/5 motor strength in the bicep muscles bilaterally, with 3/5 strength of the handgrip, and 2/5 motor strength of the quadriceps bilaterally, with 4/5 strength on dorsiflexion of the feet. He has no prior medical history. Laboratory studies reveal:

Sodium 140 mEq/L; potassium 2.0 mEq/L; chloride 112 mEq/L; bicarbonate 15 mEq/L; BUN 10 mg/dL, creatinine 0.8 mg/dL.

What is the next best step in the management of this patient?

(A) Repeat potassium level
(B) Potassium chloride orally
(C) Acetazolamide
(D) Potassium chloride intravenously
(E) Spironolactone


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episodic hypokalemic paralysis

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(C) Acetazolamide

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robin082006 wrote:
episodic hypokalemic paralysis

The diag is hypokalemic periodic paralysis nod but the ans is Potasium chloride IV, not acetazolamide

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there is no indication for the use of acetazolamide

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