PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Walter Troni
AU  - Carlo Doriguzzi
AU  - Tiziana Mongini
TI  - Interictal conduction slowing in muscle fibers in hypokalemic periodic paralysis
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.33.11.1522
DP  - 1983 Nov 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1522--1522
VI  - 33
IP  - 11
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/33/11/1522.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/33/11/1522.full
SO  - Neurology1983 Nov 01; 33
AB  - Conduction velocity in muscle fibers of the short head of biceps brachii was reduced between attacks in all the affected members of a family suffering from hypokalemic periodic paralysis. This finding represents a further evidence of a primary alteration of sarcolemmal function in this disease. Interictal conduction slowing in muscle fibers is consistent with the prevailing pathophysiologic hypothesis, which considers an increased membrane permeability to sodium ions as the fundamental defect underlying all forms of familial periodic paralysis.