hypokalemic periodic paralysis

Human disease
MedicalCondition rare_disease Q622828
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Summary

hypokalemic periodic paralysis is a rare disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.16% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,222 views/month, #1 of 627).[2]

Key Facts

  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis is a type of periodic paralysis[5].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis is a type of channelopathy[6].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's symptoms and signs is recorded as muscle weakness[7].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's symptoms and signs is recorded as hypokalemia[8].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's has cause is recorded as mutation[9].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's medical examination is recorded as potassium concentration measurement[10].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's medical examination is recorded as genetic testing[11].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's medical examination is recorded as electromyography[12].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's medical examination is recorded as muscle biopsy[13].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's possible treatment is recorded as potassium chloride[14].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0000013'}[15].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's described by source is recorded as The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[16].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C84775[17].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's health specialty is recorded as neurology[18].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's health specialty is recorded as neuromuscular medicine[19].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as dichlorphenamide[20].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's genetic association is recorded as SCN4A[21].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's genetic association is recorded as CACNA1S[22].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_14452[23].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:14452[24].
  • hypokalemic periodic paralysis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[25].

Why It Matters

hypokalemic periodic paralysis ranks in the top 0.16% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,222 views/month, #1 of 627).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . neuromuscular.wustl.edu. Retrieved . neuromuscular.wustl.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Inxight: Drugs Database. Retrieved . drugs.ncats.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . A novel sodium channel mutation in a family with hypokalemic periodic paralysis. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Dihydropyridine receptor mutations cause hypokalemic periodic paralysis. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · فيصل · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'bs', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'no', 'or', 'pl', 'pt', '
    Described by source → The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)
    Sitelink count → 16
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → periodic paralysis, channelopathy
    Possible treatment → potassium chloride
    Health specialty → neurology, neuromuscular medicine
    Drug or therapy used for treatment → dichlorphenamide
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39742|batch #39742]]: subclass of disease, not instance"
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