An early onset Gitelman syndrome presenting in a boy with failure to thrive with recurrent hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia: a case report.

Abstract excerpt

Gitelman syndrome is an autosomal recessive, chronically salt-losing tubulopathy depicted by renal potassium wasting, hypokalemia, hypocalciuric, hypomagnesemia, metabolic alkalosis, and hyperreninemic hyperaldosteronism with average or low blood pressure. This case report describes a 10-year-old boy who presented with acute respiratory tract infection with respiratory distress, myalgia, generalized muscle...

Topics

• Humans
• Male
• Gitelman Syndrome
• Hypokalemia
• Child
• Solute Carrier Family 12, Member 3