A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis

We report a case of a young female patient who presented with weakness of upper and lower limbs. On evaluation, she had hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, metabolic alkalosis and hypocalciuria. Anti-Ro (SSA) antibody was positive. She had an acquired Gitelman syndrome due to primary Sjögren's syndrom...

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Autores principales: Kulkarni, M., Kadri, P., Pinto, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199478
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.146031
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description We report a case of a young female patient who presented with weakness of upper and lower limbs. On evaluation, she had hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, metabolic alkalosis and hypocalciuria. Anti-Ro (SSA) antibody was positive. She had an acquired Gitelman syndrome due to primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS). SS presenting with features of Gitelman syndrome is very rare.
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spelling pubmed-44954812015-07-21 A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis Kulkarni, M. Kadri, P. Pinto, R. Indian J Nephrol Case Report We report a case of a young female patient who presented with weakness of upper and lower limbs. On evaluation, she had hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, metabolic alkalosis and hypocalciuria. Anti-Ro (SSA) antibody was positive. She had an acquired Gitelman syndrome due to primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS). SS presenting with features of Gitelman syndrome is very rare. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4495481/ /pubmed/26199478 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.146031 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
title A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
title_full A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
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title_full_unstemmed A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
title_short A case of acquired Gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
title_sort case of acquired gitelman syndrome presenting as hypokalemic paralysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26199478
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.146031
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