Bartter's syndrome (BS) is a disease with severe hypokalaemia due to renal potassium wasting. The potassium loss is due to lesions at different sites within the renale tubule. Additional features include metabolic alkalosis, excess renal production of prostaglandins, hyperreninaemia,
This paper is intended to give a review of the etiology and symptoms of potassium deficiency in man, as an introduction to the section on potassium and cardiac arrhythmias of this symposium. A review is given of different conditions where hypokalemia and/or total potassium deficiency is or might be
Potassium deficiency predisposes to cardiac arrhythmias culminating in syncope or sudden death. Because of the uncertainty related to the possible occurrence of such cardiac arrhythmias in the context of normotensive-hypokalemic tubulopathies, 19 European pediatric nephrologists with a large
Rationale: The typical clinical presentations of patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) include generalized weakness, fatigue, high blood pressure, and potassium deficiency. However, normotensive PA is rare. Therefore, an atypical
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