title: [Periodic paralysis discovered in a 65-year-old woman: one case report].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis (FHPP) is an autosomal dominant disorder which usually begins before thirty years.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of FHPP occurring in a 65-year-old woman whereas two members of her family have symptoms since childhood. Differential diagnosis are discussed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FHPP must be one of the differential diagnoses in front of an hypokalemic paralysis attack, even in the elderly.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, centre hospitalier Bretagne-Atlantique, Vannes, France. olivdecaux@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Decaux
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Poinsignon
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosenbaum
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sternberg
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bouissiere-Jardel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jardel
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020514:Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology