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Familial varieties of primary aldosteronism.
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Dec 2001
Stowasser M, Gunasekera T G, Gordon R D
Abstract excerpt
1. Improved approaches to screening and diagnosis have revealed primary aldosteronism (PAL) to be much more common than previously thought, with most patients normokalaemic. The spectrum of this disorder has been further broadened by the study of familial varieties. 2. Familial hyperaldosteronism type I (FH-I) is a glucocorticoid-remediable form of PAL caused by the inheritance of an adrenocorticotrophic hormone...
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