channelopathy

Such a disease is termed a channelopathy.

Suggested causes have included channelopathy, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cerebrovascular dysfunction.

See Category:Channelopathy for a full list.

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune channelopathy: it features antibodies directed against proteins that are naturally present in the body.

Hyperpyrexia None Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) is a pharmacogenetic channelopathy affecting skeletal muscle.

It is suspected that AHC may be caused by a similar channelopathy, and this is a current area of investigation into the cause of AHC.

Frequently referred to as a sodium channelopathy,this intractable epilepsy is characterized by unilateral (one-sided) clonic or tonic clonic (grand mal) seizures that ...

During the 2008-09 offseason, further medical testing indicated that Baldelli suffers from a form of channelopathy, which makes his condition less serious and more treatable than the previous diagnosis of a mitochondrial disorder.

Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is a rare, autosomal dominant channelopathy characterized by muscle weakness or paralysis with a matching fall in potassium levels in the blood (primarily due to defect in a voltage-gated calcium channel).

The underlying mechanism of these diseases are malfunctions in the ion channels in skeletal muscle cell membranes that allow electrically charged ions to leak in or out of the muscle cell, causing the cell to depolarize and become unable to move (a channelopathy).

Since hypokalemic sensory overstimulation and hypokalemic periodic paralysis have similar triggers and treatments, and since there is a relative ineffectiveness of the sodium-channel blocker lidocaine in hypokalemic sensory overstimulation, hypokalemic sensory overstimulation may be another disorder in the "channelopathy" group.