Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (864 page)

   Familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis

   Electrical and thermal burns and trauma (approximately 50% of patients; but not supported by LD-1 > LD-2)

   Drugs (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, halothane [malignant hyperthermia], ipecac)

   Endocrine disorders (e.g., hypoparathyroid, acromegaly, DKA; hypothyroidism—total CK four to eight times ULN in 60–80% of cases; becomes normal within 6 weeks of replacement therapy)

   Some infections:

   Viral (e.g., HIV, EBV, influenza, picornaviruses, coxsackievirus, echovirus, adenoviruses)

   Bacterial (e.g.,
Staphylococcus
,
Streptococcus
,
Clostridium
,
Borrelia
)

   Rocky Mountain spotted fever

   Fungal

   Parasitic (e.g., trichinosis, toxoplasmosis, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis)

   Others:

   Malignant hyperthermia; hypothermia

   Reye syndrome