… medical hospital located in West Texas, we have noticed an unusually high number of Hispanic
males … patients do present symptoms of thyrotoxicosis at the time of presentation (8,19); …

… our experience from a tertiary medical center in the southern part … male; ages ranged from
17 to 53 years, and the median age was 28 years. Twenty-eight patients (85%) were Hispanic …

… and diabetology of a French University Hospital. Patients with any … Case Presentation: We
are presenting a 53-year-old Male to … of Hispanic Origin from a Single Hospital. AACE Clinical …

… the emergency department at the Hospital Universitario ‘Dr. … of this condition are thyrotoxic
periodic paralysis types 1 and … , identified more frequently in male Latino American and Asian …

… A single hospital in United States has reported all eight cases in subjects of Hispanic origin
[… We have presumed five mechanisms may be responsible for this male predominance of TPP…

… cases of TPP are described in young Asian males [1,2,5,8], in this report we present a very
interesting case of TPP in a young 32-year-old African American male. … of community hospital …

… Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis (TPP) is a neuroendocrine … Most of the cases occur in 20 -
30 year-old Asian males. … amount of hospital admissions related to hypokalemic paralysis. As …

… in Hispanic and Asian populations. Here we present a case report of a young male patient …
Pertinent lab values during his hospital admission include elevated free thyroxine (T4) level at …

… We present a case of a 24-year-old Hispanic male who … the patient was admitted to the hospital
for a neurologic evaluation. He … Table 2 provides an overview of eight cases with delayed …

… thyrotoxicosis, hypokalemia, and paralysis, most often occurring in men of Asian or Hispanic
descent… The patient was also started on dexamethasone (2 mg intravenously every 8 hours) …