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Mineralocorticoid resistance.
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM - 1 Aug 2004
Zennaro Maria-Christina, Lombès Marc
Abstract excerpt
Mineralocorticoid resistance, also known as type I pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA1), is a rare inherited disease characterized by salt wasting, dehydration and failure to thrive in the newborn. Two different forms of the disease, which present with either systemic or exclusively renal resistance to aldosterone, are associated with two different modes of inheritance. The generalized, recessive form of the disease is...
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