BARTTER SYNDROME: A RARE RENAL TUBULOPATHY
BARTTER SYNDROME: A RARE RENAL TUBULOPATHY
Author(s): Amelia GENUNCHE-DUMITRESCU, Daniela Badea, Marius Cristian Marinas, Daniela Neagoe, Tiberiu Stefanita Tenea-Cojan, Aurelian-Adrian BadeaSubject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Research and Science Today
Keywords: BARTTER SYNDROME; HYPOKALEMIA;
Summary/Abstract: BARTTER SYNDROME IS AN AUTOSOMAL RECESIVE DISORDER ASSOCIATED WITH BIOCHEMICAL ABNORMALITIES SUCH AS HYPOKALEMIA AND ELEVATED RENIN, ALDOSTERON LEVEL AND METABOLIC ALKALOSIS. THE CLINICAL MANIFESTATION SUCH AS ANOREXIA, CONSTIPATION, NAUSEA, MUSCULAR HYPOTONIA ARE DETERMINED BY HYPOKALEMIA. PROGNOSIS IS GENERALLY GOOD WITH EARLY STABILIZATION OF METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES. LIFE LONG MEDICATION IS NEEDED IN THIS DISEASE.
Journal: Research and Science Today
- Issue Year: 21/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 91-95
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
