[Paroxysmal myoplegia].
The report deals with an observation of a 16 year old patient with paroxysmal myoplegia. On the background of a low K content in the blood plasma, a drop in the level of Co in the whole blood, an increase of the content of Na in the plasma and Cu in the blood, an increase in the adrenalin excretion with urine, a drop in the brain biorhythm seen in the EEG and cerebral-vascular tone in the REG, there were periodical attacks of tetraplegia with disturbed respiration. During one of such severe attacks the patient died from respirational and bulbar muscle paralysis.
D000293:Adolescent; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010507:Periodicity; D010992:Plethysmography, Impedance
O paroksizmal'noĭ mioplegii