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A Rare Case of Familiar Hypertension Presenting with Hypertensive Encephalopathy in an Elderly Patient: A Diagnostic Dilemma: A Presentation of Liddle's Syndrome due to Novel Mutation in SCNN1G Gene.
Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia - 1 Jan 2000
Suman Sethi, Sudhir Mehta, Nitin Sethi, Vikas Makkar, Simran Kaur, Preet Sohal M
Abstract excerpt
Liddle's syndrome is a rare cause of secondary hypertension (HTN). Basic characteristics of this disease are HTN, reduced concentration of aldosterone and renin activity, as well as increased excretion of potassium, leading to hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. The cause of Liddle syndrome is missense or frame shift mutations in SCNN1A, SCNN1B, or SCNN1G genes that encode epithelial sodium channel subunits. We...
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