Meanings of familial periodic paralyses in English

Dominant SCN4A gain-of-function mutations are a well-established cause of myotonia and periodic paralysis.

Methods: Six unrelated Korean patients with periodic paralysis or nondystrophic myotonia associated with SCN4A mutations were included in the study.

Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis is a rare genetic neuromuscular disease characterized by episodes of skeletal muscle paralysis associated with low serum potassium.

We report a child with hypokalaemic periodic paralysis and CNS involvement, including seizures, but without mutations in the known periodic paralysis genes.

There are at present two other distinct clinical muscle disorders associated with mutations in the sodium channel: hyperkalemic periodic paralysis and paramyotonia congenita.