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REQUEST: HYPERKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS
To All,
I am wondering if anyone has and would be willing to share any needle EMG recordings in a patient (s) with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (or paramyotonia) showing the so called florid "fibrillation" potentials that can occur with a reduction in temperature as the recording transistions from myotonic discharges to the noted fibrillation potentials, or both waveforms occurring simultaneously. I am working on a project attempting to correlate the intracellular action potentials with the extracellularly recorded waveforms in these patients. You can contact me off this forum through my email at the aanem directory.
Thank you for your kind attention
Dan Dumitru
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Daniel Dumitru, MD, PhD