A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia—Case Report

A 20-year-old female patient was admitted to hospital because of bilateral leg weakness. Laboratory investigation showed metabolic alkalosis and severe hypokalemia. Differential diagnosis included mineralocorticoid or apparent mineralocorticoid excess diseases, with a high aldosterone-to-renin ratio...

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Autores principales: Andrawus, Elias, Hochberg, Irit, Azzam, Zaher S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2018
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5916233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29514039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10330
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description A 20-year-old female patient was admitted to hospital because of bilateral leg weakness. Laboratory investigation showed metabolic alkalosis and severe hypokalemia. Differential diagnosis included mineralocorticoid or apparent mineralocorticoid excess diseases, with a high aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR) after correcting hypokalemia. After confirmatory tests, imaging studies revealed a unilateral adrenocortical adenoma consistent with Conn’s disease. Surgery was curative.
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spelling pubmed-59162332018-05-04 A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia—Case Report Andrawus, Elias Hochberg, Irit Azzam, Zaher S. Rambam Maimonides Med J Internal Medicine A 20-year-old female patient was admitted to hospital because of bilateral leg weakness. Laboratory investigation showed metabolic alkalosis and severe hypokalemia. Differential diagnosis included mineralocorticoid or apparent mineralocorticoid excess diseases, with a high aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR) after correcting hypokalemia. After confirmatory tests, imaging studies revealed a unilateral adrenocortical adenoma consistent with Conn’s disease. Surgery was curative. Rambam Health Care Campus 2018-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5916233/ /pubmed/29514039 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10330 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Andrawus et al This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Andrawus, Elias
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A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia—Case Report
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title_short A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia—Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5916233/
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