Article
[Liddle syndrome].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Mar 1996
Tamura H, Sasaki S
Abstract excerpt
In 1963 Liddle et al. described a disorder that simulated primary aldosteronism, characterized by severe hypertension and hypokalemia but with negligible secretion of aldosterone. They theoried that this was a disorder in which the renal tubules transport ions with such abnormal facility that the end result simulates that of a mineralcorticoid excess. Later, it was postulated that this disorder could be related...
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