• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.50-52
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• 2001

Licorice is widely used as a Chinese(herbal) medicine. The glycyrrhizin, a main ingredient of the natural licorice, has a potent mineralocorticoid effect which may cause severe hypokalemia and muscle paralysis. We present a 60-year-old woman, who had been ingesting one or two spoonful of licorice powder daily for about one year, developed acute flaccid quadriparesis with high levels of serum muscle enzymes and the typical features of mineralocorticoid excess such as severe hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. Both plasma renin activity and serum aldosterone level were below the normal values. This case indicates that licorice-induced hypokalemic myopathy should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a patient with acute quadriparesis and hypokalemia.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.133-137
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• 1987

저자 등은 임상증상, 지속적인 저칼률혈증 및 복부 질산화단층촬영으로 원발성 고-알도스테론증으로 밝혀졌는 42세 여자환자에서 주요 증상인 주기적 근마비와 상지 근죄악감이 혈청감사상 지명한 근육효소의 증가 및 근전도검사로 근육병임이 증명되었고 선종제거로 임상증상의 완전조직이 생긴 1례를 보고하였다.