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Would routine blood work of electrolytes indicate a problem with voltage-gated potassium channels? what test would be needed? symptoms associated?
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Highly technical: You would get this type of information from a highly specialized electrophysiologist as this question pertains to cellular biology that the average physician has no practical knowledge of or what the clinical implications of abnormalities in these channels are.
Answered 10/24/2017
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