Licorice-Induced Pseudohyperaldosteronism: A Case Report.

We present a 71-year-old man admitted to the intensive care unit with severe hypokalemia after ingesting licorice-containing confectionary over 6 weeks. Excess consumption of licorice with its active metabolite glycyrrhizic acid may precipitate pseudohyperaldosteronism with life-threatening hypokalemia. Public awareness and measures such as warning labels are needed to warn against excessive consumption.

Paraparesis secondary to hypokalaemia with hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism during pregnancy: a diagnostic dilemma.

We report the case of a 22-year-old Ethiopian woman, gravida 1, para 0, who presented at 16 weeks gestation with myalgia and paraparesis.

Are Māori women at increased risk of cardiac complications of Graves disease?

We present a case series of three women of New Zealand Māori ethnicity, who presented to the emergency department of a Brisbane hospital (Brisbane, Australia) with symptomatic cardiac complications of Graves disease requiring hospital admission. We raise the question as to whether individuals of Māori ethnicity are genetically susceptible to cardiac complications of thyrotoxicosis.