RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Interictal conduction slowing in muscle fibers in hypokalemic periodic paralysis
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1522
OP 1522
DO 10.1212/WNL.33.11.1522
VO 33
IS 11
A1 Walter Troni
A1 Carlo Doriguzzi
A1 Tiziana Mongini
YR 1983
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/33/11/1522.abstract
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.