Chronic renal failure, end-stage renal disease, and peritoneal dialysis in Gitelman's syndrome.

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The chronic state of hypovolemia, hypotension, and hypokalemia found in Bartter's syndrome has been shown to lead to a chronic nephropathy, which then can progress toward end-stage renal disease and dialysis. This progression, however, has never been reported for Gitelman's syndrome, a variant of Bartter's syndrome that shows a milder clinical picture. This report is the first to document this progression (ie,...

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