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[Gitelman syndrome: a rare cause of hypokalemia]
E Brasseur1, J C Philips, G Rorive
1Service de Gastro-Entérologie, Département de Médecine interne, CHU Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège.
Revue Medicale De Liege
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
We report a case of hypokaliemia whose origin is a urinary potassium loss associated with syndrome of Gitelman. The syndrome of Gitelman is a rare familiar autosomal recessive nephropathy. We will discuss the pathophysiology of this syndrome and differential diagnoses.