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Amiloride resolves resistant edema and hypertension in a patient with nephrotic syndrome; a case report

Sodium and fluid retention is a hallmark and a therapeutic challenge of the nephrotic syndrome (NS). Studies support the “overfill” theory of NS with pathophysiological proteolytic activation of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) which explains the common observation of suppressed renin –angiotens...

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Autores principales: Hinrichs, Gitte R., Mortensen, Line A., Jensen, Boye L., Bistrup, Claus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29939487
http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13743