Carbenoxolone-induced hypokalaemia simulating Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Gitelman syndrome: a rare life‐threatening case of hypokalemic paralysis mimicking Guillain–Barré syndrome during pregnancy and review of the literature

“…Dyselectrolytemia is also uncommon in GBS , and the presence of hypokalemia in such patients calls for consideration of another diagnosis.…”

“…This albuminocytological dissociation was not found in the patient, as one would expect to find in GBS. Dyselectrolytemia is also uncommon in GBS [3][4][5][6][7], and the presence of hypokalemia in such patients calls for consideration of another diagnosis.…”

Severe hypokalaemia causing acute resiratory failure

“…During the course of preparing our case report we discovered several cases in the literature of patients with hypokalaemia requiring mechanical ventilation. The causes of the hypokalaemia in these reports were variable and included renal tubular acidosis [1, 2], periodic paralysis [3], severe diarrhoea [4], barium poisoning [5–7] and carbenoxolone treatment [8].…”