%0 Journal Article %A Bhat, Manzoor Ahmad %A Laway, Bashir Ahmad %A Mustafa, Farhat %A Shafi Kuchay, Mohammad %A Mubarik, Idrees %A Ahmad Palla, Nazir %T Hypokalemic quadriparesis and rhabdomyolysis as a rare presen-tation of distal renal tubular acidosis %J Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran %V 28 %N 1 %U http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2299-en.html %R %D 2014 %K Nephrocalcinosis, Hypokalemia, Rhabdomyolysis, Short stature, Renal tubular acidosis., %X   Distal renal tubular acidosis is a syndrome of abnormal urine acidification and is characterized by hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia, hypercalciurea, nephrocalcinosis and nephrolithiasis. Despite the presence of persistent hypokalemia, acute muscular paralysis is rarely encountered in males.Here, we will report an eighteen year old male patient who presented with flaccid quadriparesis and was subsequently found to have rhabdomyolysis, severe short stature, skeletal deformities and primary distal renal tubular acidosis. %> http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2299-en.pdf %P 221-225 %& 221 %! %9 case report %L A-10-1-664 %+ Department of Endocrinology, Sher-I-Kashmir Instituite of Medical Sciences, Soura Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir India. %G eng %@ 1016-1430 %[ 2014