Unmasking of Gitelman Syndrome during Pregnancy in an Adolescent with Thyrotoxic Crisis

• Main Authors: Ratna Acharya (Author), Kiran Upadhyay (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: MDPI AG, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background. Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an inherited salt-losing renal tubulopathy characterized by hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis with hypomagnesemia and hypocalciuria. Patients can be asymptomatic until late adolescence or adulthood, and hence may be discovered incidentally during presentation with...